or, as you wrote, “steals”

Nice hallucination, clanker. Fuck off.

This is a great change. I wonder how long before the hate brigade comes along to complain.

No. Employment is finite. Including someone means excluding someone else.

“DEI hire” has a different definition depending on whether you’re talking about design or implementation.

Design: Non-discriminatory hiring practices where race, gender, age, religion and disabilities are overlooked. You get hired purely on your ability to do the job. Appropriate disability supports are given if required.

Implementation: Cheap foreign labour obscured by marketing spin and a calendar of wokewashing. Applicants are hired based on a quota that in no way reflects the talent pool.

I get that hiring practices should not discriminate, but in practice, what I have seen is the opposite of meritocracy. My company had many DEI hires, and they were the first to go when the money got tight.

On a similar energy, I’d remove speed humps. They’re worse by design.