If it’s clear they are otherwise discriminating then yes it is

They should, in the place that is under their jurisdiction, i.e. the hiring process.

That’s not the employer’s job to take the government’s place.

Hiring on merit means only hiring white men because from birth they have an advantage. Unless you ignore all socio-economic issues people need to deal with throughout their whole lives, hiring based on merit only makes no sense, sometimes you have to give a chance to people you wouldn’t naturally give a chance to in order to break centuries old practices. Maybe in a thousand year a black kid will have exactly the same opportunities as a white kid, but it’s not the case now.

Because of subconscious notions they do need help to get jobs they’re qualified for. Hell, being bald is a deterrent, being called Kevin is a deterrent, being short is a deterrent to get hired with similar qualifications!

Hiring unqualified people also happens without DEI though and looking at studies on DEI’s impact on productivity it might actually happen more without it in place considering that output usually increases when implementing DEI measures…

A bunch of candidates from diverse backgrounds, the unqualified white dude gets hired out of unconscious systemic racism or out of fear of being flagged as a company with DEI measures in place. Nepotism as well, hire the son of a good employee even though better candidates exist…

Right, a white person joining a team that’s 100% non white would be considered an ethnic minority in this case.

I understand your point but HR won’t do a background check to figure out if an Indian candidate comes from a socio-economic background that makes them closer to the rest of the well off engineers team already in place vs a white guy that might have been raised in a very poor household. That’s why it’s usually ethnic origin, gender, handicap and surface stuff like that.

Correct, unless it’s for work that doesn’t require special qualifications then it’s usually a question of “out of those employees with very similar qualifications, is one of them part of an ethnic minority/a woman/someone with a handicap?”

It’s usually more than just “not only hiring old white dudes” but a conscious effort to make the place more representative of society by intentionally hiring people of diverse gender/ethnicity/handicap instead, sometimes leading to processes being closed to people who aren’t part of certain groups, which might in theory go against some laws depending on where you live, but the same thing can be achieved by just wasting time filtering out white men’s CV or just not calling them back after interviews, so I personally don’t mind just being excluded and giving others a chance, if they don’t have non white dude applicants then I’ll get called and otherwise I’ve got plenty of doors open to me, more than most in fact and that’s not ok.

Because both companies are doing the same thing at the moment regarding a certain subject…

Well the next 4 years are part of forever

yes

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/19/population-ultra-high-net-worth-wealth.html

The number of them is increasing, I never talked about proportions.

That’s a separate US issue.

Some people just love to find reasons to get offended.

Hell, a way to carry a baby was called cultural appropriation by some black people where I live when first Nations have been carrying their baby the same way on our territory since way before any black people set foot in northern America but we don’t hear them complain.

The total number of billionaires keeps increasing, so does the number of people with hundreds of millions, that happens at the same time as the middle class is disappearing with most people becoming poorer.

That number is increasing

I think you underestimate what it is to have so much money that you don’t have to care about how it’s spent. A billionaire could spend a million a day for three years and still be left with millions because of the interest they make.

Just for those not wealthy enough to not care

At some point you wonder, why not just prevent them from owning homes if they’re not citizens? Kick em out and tell them to come back when they’re EU citizens, problem solved.