How much does DEI come in to play with this as well? Brown skin trumps white by those standards. Immigration status probably adds extra points. When college grads have been struggling to find jobs for decades, I think that may also contribute to the workforce aged becoming disenchanted and frustrated. Kick in a little more frustration wi…
How much does DEI come in to play with this as well? Brown skin trumps white by those standards. Immigration status probably adds extra points. When college grads have been struggling to find jobs for decades, I think that may also contribute to the workforce aged becoming disenchanted and frustrated. Kick in a little more frustration with 2020 madness and the ongoing histrionics and you have people who are sick, injured, dead and mentally unwell/exhausted.
My two cents is that DEI is, if anything, being used as political cover.
Bear in mind that I am looking at economic data and describing economic forces, and likely economic motivations.
Is there a prejudicial component to those motivations? That's possible, but even so such motivations resolve largely as a desire for cheaper labor. If native labor were cheaper than foreign labor, it seems unlikely that prejudice against native born workers would be sufficient to run counter to the business compulsion to hold down labor costs.
The color most business owners--and virtually all successful business owners--care about most of all is green.
That does not prevent the rubric of DEI and similar presumptively "egalitarian" ideologies from being a convenient justification for what amounts to basic greed. Make profit seem noble and virtuous and business owners will dislocate their shoulder patting themselves on the back.
One thing to note is that the bias against native born workers cuts across all ethnic categories. Something that emerged when I was analyzing these labor patterns with relation to "Bidenomics" a few months back was that minorities in this country were being disadvantaged by these labor patterns as well. That indicates that ethnic or racial prejudice or animus is really not part of the animating impulse here.
If anything, this data indicates why Democrats (and, in particular, Democrat supporters) have shifted from focusing on minorities within this country to importing illegal aliens.
It really isn't the color of the skin that matters here. It's the color of money.
How much does DEI come in to play with this as well? Brown skin trumps white by those standards. Immigration status probably adds extra points. When college grads have been struggling to find jobs for decades, I think that may also contribute to the workforce aged becoming disenchanted and frustrated. Kick in a little more frustration with 2020 madness and the ongoing histrionics and you have people who are sick, injured, dead and mentally unwell/exhausted.
My two cents is that DEI is, if anything, being used as political cover.
Bear in mind that I am looking at economic data and describing economic forces, and likely economic motivations.
Is there a prejudicial component to those motivations? That's possible, but even so such motivations resolve largely as a desire for cheaper labor. If native labor were cheaper than foreign labor, it seems unlikely that prejudice against native born workers would be sufficient to run counter to the business compulsion to hold down labor costs.
The color most business owners--and virtually all successful business owners--care about most of all is green.
That does not prevent the rubric of DEI and similar presumptively "egalitarian" ideologies from being a convenient justification for what amounts to basic greed. Make profit seem noble and virtuous and business owners will dislocate their shoulder patting themselves on the back.
One thing to note is that the bias against native born workers cuts across all ethnic categories. Something that emerged when I was analyzing these labor patterns with relation to "Bidenomics" a few months back was that minorities in this country were being disadvantaged by these labor patterns as well. That indicates that ethnic or racial prejudice or animus is really not part of the animating impulse here.
If anything, this data indicates why Democrats (and, in particular, Democrat supporters) have shifted from focusing on minorities within this country to importing illegal aliens.
It really isn't the color of the skin that matters here. It's the color of money.
Eloquent!