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So they should help, but only in an inefficient, counterproductive way that could also damage their business?
Because why exactly? Who said training and education has to be outside a company's jurisdiction?
You also want companies running towns while we're at it?
It is efficient in the long run because offering them very jobs means they're kids get to grow up in better socio-economic conditions.
You can give all the education you want to women and people of various ethnic backgrounds and the handicapped, in the end the white guy with the same (or sometimes worse) qualifications will get hired in their place unless DEI measures are put in place, that's their whole point, getting companies to recognize that if they don't make a conscious effort to prevent it, there's systemic discrimination happening in all industries.
They also affect people after they get hired. Hiring a woman to end up giving her less money for the same work goes against DEI. Accommodations for people who have physical or mental health challenges affects everyone, even people who believe it's not for them, they're one car running a red light away from needing those and in some States that accident could mean them simply being laid off with no consequence for their employer and no recourse for the employee.
I want government to do a better job. In lack of that, training and education is something I don't mind handing over to employers. A lot of job specific training is already provided by employers anyway. Safety trainings, how to work with specific tools and technologies, continuous education, regulatory compliance, business ethics...
The whole point of my post is arguing for removing biases by making the hiring process race and background blind, instead of "positive discrimination". The argument isn't to bring back discrimination, but what is the best way to prevent it.
I am talking about hiring policies here. I have opinions about wages as well, but if we keep switching topics, we will get nowhere.
This is actually a good point. I didn't really consider disabilities and health accommodations as part of DEI, since they are protected by law where I live, not part of the voluntary DEI initiatives. These should stay imo.
So you're ready to wait centuries before making the hiring process fair to non white CIS gender hereto men because that's how long it's gonna take to fix all socioeconomic inequalities that need to be fixed in order to guarantee that no matter who you're born at, you have access to the same opportunities to build your CV in order to apply for a job for a blind process that only tries to determine who is the most qualified candidate. Sounds like a white person wanting to protect their white privilege they don't realize they have.
I'll give you an example, white vs white. Quebec families don't have as much wealth accumulated in general compared to Ontario families because until the 1960s the Catholic Church was omnipresent in people's lives and forced them to have more kids and to pay to build churches and to keep doing manual labor under English management. To this day it still has an impact on their average level of education and on the kind of life they can afford to live.