“I retired at 60 just over a year ago, as I got fed up with all the wokery. This included compulsory online courses in pseudoscience like unconscious bias and microaggressions, relentless curtailment of free speech, and worst of all, relentless over-promotion of minorities in search of equity.
“My boss’s boss, a black woman based on the west coast of the US, was utterly clueless – the very definition of a ‘diversity hire’ – she could hardly read out her own slides, never mind presenting anything in a persuasive manner. She was incapable of handling an escalation, such as when I made a complaint about a sales manager – she did precisely nothing about this except sympathetic words and lots of HR jargonising.
“The final straw came when the Silicon Valley-based CEO, on the quarterly ‘results’ conference call, spent five minutes on financial performance and 25 minutes chatting to a trans person about their ‘lived experience’. Utterly bizarre.
“The choice was to retire or to push back and probably get kicked out.
“It’s all happened so fast – they hired me at 54 and they were delighted to get someone with my experience. They were shocked when I left and that division has struggled. But there’s no way they’d hire a ‘me’ now – identity is now prioritised over competence and that will not end well.”
As Gary Becker pointed out, taste discrimination costs the discriminator money. Therefore we’ expect a market system to weed it out over time.
Wokery posts an employer money. Therefore we’ expect a market system to weed it out over time.
How much time, ah, well, but it will die in the end.