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Skills lose their appreciation as we increasingly honor people for being born into the right culture.
The thing is, this isn't "increasingly" an issue, in my view; tech has been like this for a long time, where the "right" culture is, in western countries, being a white man. Tech has never been a meritocracy or anything close to it.
I don't think anyone working on DEI would advocate for hiring folks who don't have the skills to do a job. Rather, the "equity" part is about creating the conditions for what you'd call a meritocracy—allowing people to succeed regardless of their economic background, gender, sexual orientation, race, or disabilities. Alan Turing was forced out of technology because he was gay; if you read the article @rhymes
posted that's listed above, Britain basically killed its own technology industry by forcing out competent women for mediocre men.
There are probably a lot of people who could succeed in programming if given the chance. I'm a pretty good example of this; I've been programming for more than two thirds of my life despite being a relative minority in the tech industry because I had a lot of early encouragement and mentorship, plus the economic background to have regular access to a computer. If we made sure that everyone who showed interest in programming had those things, we might be looking at something closer to a meritocracy now. The question is, how do we build that perfect world where no one does care about differences? That's what DEI is trying to achieve.
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The thing is, this isn't "increasingly" an issue, in my view; tech has been like this for a long time, where the "right" culture is, in western countries, being a white man. Tech has never been a meritocracy or anything close to it.
I don't think anyone working on DEI would advocate for hiring folks who don't have the skills to do a job. Rather, the "equity" part is about creating the conditions for what you'd call a meritocracy—allowing people to succeed regardless of their economic background, gender, sexual orientation, race, or disabilities. Alan Turing was forced out of technology because he was gay; if you read the article @rhymes posted that's listed above, Britain basically killed its own technology industry by forcing out competent women for mediocre men.
There are probably a lot of people who could succeed in programming if given the chance. I'm a pretty good example of this; I've been programming for more than two thirds of my life despite being a relative minority in the tech industry because I had a lot of early encouragement and mentorship, plus the economic background to have regular access to a computer. If we made sure that everyone who showed interest in programming had those things, we might be looking at something closer to a meritocracy now. The question is, how do we build that perfect world where no one does care about differences? That's what DEI is trying to achieve.