In other words, if you don’t support “diversity” over merit, you are “dumb as a rock.”
Merit pays well, and well it should. Diversity is mostly a “share the blame and poverty” approach to economic affairs, invoking scarcities and rationing, so everything is “fair”. There is no concept that the size of the pie can be grown, only a zero-sum game that eventually runs out of other people’s money.
This leads to reckless claims that everybody is entitled to a “living wage”, and demands for ever greater “minimum wage”. Merit gets lost in the shuffle, if the time-servers are paid at the same rate as the hustlers and the overly ambitious.
Crabs in a pail. One crab can simply climb out. Two or more, the crabs lower down in the pail just keep pulling the one that is nearly out back into the pail.