Posted on 01/21/2022 2:39:09 AM PST by Kaslin
The financial services industry has evolved on the topic of equality over the last five years. Five years ago, firms were encouraged to bring greater diversity and equality to the workplace. Over time the message became increasingly urgent and instead of encouraging, industry writers started to guilt firms to speed up the process of back-office employees and advisors hired reflecting greater diversity and equality. More recently the tone of articles has shifted to shaming firms that haven’t made enough "progress" in equality/diversity advances. The shaming has been primarily focused to broker/dealers that are small and midsized vs. larger broker/dealers that these anointed ones believe progressed at a fast enough pace to not be shamed. The largest wirehouse firms like Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley are the most enmeshed in woke dogma and the push for equity.
Small and midsized broker/dealers tend to be proponents of equal opportunity where a group of candidates for a particular job opening is considered, with the decision-making process ultimately to hire the best qualified candidate but not to taint that decision with bias against the candidate on the basis of age, race, gender, religion, sexuality, or nationality. Indeed, this has long been the norm in hiring practices. Firms tell us, “We are always looking for the best candidates in the marketplace, so if you find someone that is a standout, even if we don’t have an opening at the time, we’ll make room just so we can have the best.” Unfortunately, equal opportunity is being pushed aside by equity, which has numerous unintended consequences.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBuBBC5fwd4&t=90s
Nice rant by Joe Rogan about “effort inequality” being the real source of “income inequality”.
A good way to shut down the equal outcome concept is simply ask, you do believe in evolution don’t you? After the “Yes” point out that the very nature of evolution is some make it and some don’t.
and that is not only true, it’s factual
In my experience I’ve found that overpaid useless diversity tokens serve me well; I’ll always have a job (as someone who knows and does the real work), and I won’t work a minute extra (as the tokens are gone long before a full day is done). It is impossible to have a bad review when token peers contribute nothing, just fend off lawsuits.
It has served me well for decades.
Equal outcome = affirmative action,pure and simple. There's a reason why I'm not a world famous brain surgeon: I'm not smart enough and I don't have the work ethic required. There's a reason why I'm not making millions on an NBA roster: I can't jump,run or shoot.
And there's a reason why I have a secure,comfortable life: I'm smart enough and I've worked hard enough.
Powerhouse author,Tom Wolfe, described as a conservative,
wrote The Right Stuff........ epic astronaut book and film.
He also wrote social commentary novels,The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), and Radical Chic
& Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970-—about lefty Leonard Bernsteins party for the Black Panthers).
Wolfe postulated that to nail down “equality” masks would be required so that the beautiful people were on an equal plane w/ the less attractive.
Equal opportunity is like luck when preparation meets opportunity.
ALL TEXT BOOKS are printed the same...
There is NO difference between textbooks issued to whites & those issued to blacks.
IF those textbooks are NOT used-—Cannot blame the ‘system’.
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