Re:Tech’s Troubling New Trend: Diversity Is in Your Head
by freedomben on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @12:50AM
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I agree with you, but there are many who believe that a person has a right to a job, and that it is fundamentally unfair for one person to have a job that is better than another. They also believe that basing employment on merit is an anti-pattern, and that it is not fair that some people have educational and employment opportunities that others do not have, purely as a result of their parent and/or birth situation. I worked with a guy who would argue that the entire society should reap the reward because without the provisions from society (roads, structure, etc) the business would not be possible.
Re:Tech’s Troubling New Trend: Diversity Is in Your Head
by mcbruiser3 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:52PM
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but the entire society DOES reap rewards, in the form of taxes on profit and contribution to the progress of mankind.
Is working at a "tech" company, a social benefit that we should be "doling" out evenly to all groups as a reward? What does that mean "deserves to work in tech"?
The only measure why anyone gets to work anywhere is they have the skills and mental ability to perform , at the minimum, the necessary tasks. We should simply be ensuring that we are not systematically biased against any candidates as to hire the best possible workforce.