Roko 🌊🪨🏙️ (@RokoMijic): "Homogenous group strategies offer better, more legible protection than diverse meritocratic ones Ethnonationalism is a legible, simple protective group strategy strategy in the grand game for power and influence. You have a ...
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Mass immigration, diversity quotas, legal protections etc claims to offer the same protection. "We'll make the workforce more diverse, but only by hiring the best candidates", "There aren't enough skilled white candidates!"
But violating the constraint of hiring in a colorblind way is extremely illegible. The entire recruitment process is full of hidden information - the employer secretly runs some process to hire people and can even incentivize hiring managers to hire 'diverse' candidates. You have absolutely no idea how many times you have been discriminated against for being white and male. But of course occasionally bosses will blurt it out - I've heard it at least twice personally.
And then there are ways to craft the selection criteria that appear to be colorblind but actually aren't (this has been done to exclude East Asians from Elite schools), or to demand equal representation based on an assumption of equal skill (low quality black doctors being hired for DEI).
There are just so many ways to cheat to gain advantage in a more diverse society, and those forms of cheating are harder to check for or politically hard to get rid of (because everything in a democracy needs to be politically viable in addition to being technically viable)
"We'll just take the most talented people from everywhere so everything will be better" simply ignores political economics and game theory. In fact I think these kind of appeals to meritocracy are bad on purpose - the people making them know that a more diverse game will be more corrupt and they like it that way.
