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But that's my point. DEI generates more revenue because it broadens customer bases.
WFH also increases revenue, yet most companies are doing RTO
RTO is about power and control. People who work from home realize that work is just a part of life. There are pros and cons to both office and home working situations, but corporate mandates are not based on what is best or most efficient. It's about who chooses their working style.
same with corporations not hiring diverse staffs unless they're forced. none ofethis is actually about money, the economy, or the price of eggs. it's all about colonialism, genocide, and hate
Jesus fucking Christ. No. The vast majority of corporate hiring decisions are ultimately made based on subconscious biases held by individual HR employees, DEI initiatives primarily serve to break those biases. Yes, subconscious biases can still be racist and/or sexist or otherwise harmful, but they're not intentionally harmful, nevermind hateful, colonialist (the fuck?) or genocidal (where on earth did you even get that from?!).
I mean, it's always about money. It's just that it's the big money that the oligarchs make by profiting from colonialism, genocide, and fostering hate. The small money, the money businesses make and spend, the millions in operating costs and profits, that's not the money that matters.
And that’s exactly the same reason why many companies are ditching DEI
Nowadays more and more businesses are built to rot (or bought by private equity and converted to this model), spending only a very brief period of their life cycle trying to attract customers and talented workers. Or put another way, they're increasingly being fattened up as quickly as possible for slaughter.
Most will die quickly while clawing as much value back from both customers and workers as possible, while a few winners are monopolies that do the exact same thing but get away with it for longer because there isn't strong enough competition for people to stop doing business with them (such as Adobe, from what I've heard).
As long as investors and executives keep getting the big payoffs they do by gaming the system, it keeps getting worse.
Ahh, but they are already convinced that they have the best people to broaden their customer base because those are the people they picked, and therefore there is no need to spend any money on staff and initiatives to tell them they are wrong, when that money is better spent on bonuses and marketing. Business nerds at Wharton may spot some general trends, but they don't know Company X, which has the best management team ever assembled.
Not necessarily. A lot of recent TV shows, movies, and video games have had their creators publicly blaming "anti-woke backlash" for poor performances. The creators themselves are saying this so I would assume they've got some basis for it, and if that's the case then in those instances implementing visible DEI efforts is narrowing the customer base.
This has become a front on a "culture war" and it wouldn't be a "culture war" if there weren't contesting sides. So if you align yourself clearly with one side or the other you're cutting off a part of the customer base. I can see it as plausible that companies would decide "let's just continue to not be racist but not make a big deal out of it and hopefully not offend anyone in the process."
It's a lot easier to point at online trolls' anti-woke criticism of your art than to admit you made shitty art.
It's also very easy for a loud but small group to control the narrative about a movie and get people to assume it isn't a good movie. Even before the movie comes out, it's already box office poison. It happened with Captain Marvel. The minute that movie was announced, the anti-woke brigade went into high gear and found every reason to badmouth the fact that Disney dared to make a movie where a woman was the hero.
It's true that that can happen, but you can't assume it's the case for all criticism. For example, I agree that Captain Marvel was a bad movie for a lot of reasons. However, The Marvels avoided these issues and consequently I think it was a solid movie. Both movies received hate online, although interestingly I think The Marvels got less hate despite having 3x as many women protagonists. So, how do you know which criticisms are anti-feminist and which are legit? It's a case-by-case thing, really. Some movies definitely get the anti-woke backlash more than others though. The only analysis I'm confident is incorrect is "all criticism of [movie] is [legit / just anti-woke hate]", because there are always a variety of takes being lumped together inaccurately.
FTFY
Just because the upper class is using their influence to encourage conservative hate, that doesn't mean that they aren't currently hateful.
Regardless of why there are contesting sides, the contesting sides are still there.
I'm not arguing for or against any of this, I should note. I'm just pointing out that this division exists. If a company advertises "we're DEI!" Then that may attract some new customers but it may also repel some existing ones, so it's something that needs to be done with care.
Personally, I wish that companies would just go ahead and do their best to not be biased in who they employ and who they cater to, and that that would be enough.
Yes, their basis is they wrote a shitty show, hoping the diversity would make up for their bad writing, and decided to blame the diversity for it instead of their own failures.
In my unprofessional opinion: yea
You are seriously exaggerating here. A few have said that. Not a lot. And the entertainment industry is a tiny slice of American business and one that relies less on speaking directly to individual customers like, say, AT&T or Kroger.
Budweiser also experienced a backlash-based boycott over issues like this, it's not just the entertainment industry.
My point is just that "DEI generates more revenue because it broadens customer bases" is not necessarily true. It's an overly broad statement, there are cases where that's not the case and so companies should take that into account and perhaps be cautious about advertising their DEI initiatives. It's become political, which means taking one side necessarily puts you at odds with the other side. That's potential customers.