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190 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 6 Mar \ on: Bitcoin is DEI Technology bitcoin
DEI has always been political @k00b. Its just that conservative politicians before Trump had zero backbone. They were terrified of being called racists. Trump just doesn't care so he exposed that you can just ignore those cries of racism. The DEI people pushed to far during Covid and Trump and others saw an opportunity.
I will make the case that bitcoin is not DEI tech.
He's right about that. It doesn't. But DEI does. That's the issue. Diversity isn't good or bad. Its neutral. I think we can all see times when diversity is a strength but also in other situations it is a weakness. DEI people don't like the words of MLK about being color blind. They don't like the hands off approach, merit based world many of us would love to see. They reject it. Action must be taken. Discrimination must be done to make the numbers line up. I've been on the calls where this is talked about. They know they are pushing the lines of legality. For them this is a moral cause.
By contrast Bitcoin isn't moral. Its amoral. Just as gold is amoral. Yeah, we like to moralize around it but it doesn't care one way or another. There will not be equity under a bitcoin standard. Bitcoin will not level the playing field. It will remove many of the centralizing forces that lead to oppression but it doesn't remove hierarchies.
Those that are better looking, more intelligent, and more skilled in marketable trades will still be better off than those that do not have those abilities and traits. DEI is an attempt to make things "fair". Fair meaning what the person saying fair wants.
Bitcoin isn't DEI Tech. Its far better. Its a censorship resistant and permission-less money that doesn't care who is using it.
I would argue the whole DEI movement has set western civilization back as far as division and hatred. It has caused divisions that didn't exist before. Its terrible.
The main issue is that it tries to use centralized force to "right" a wrong. This backfires. You turn allies into enemies. You become what you are claiming to oppose. In short, its Marxist poison designed to divide people.
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People forgot that large companies ruined DEI and the concept that stands behind it which is human empathy.
Microsoft's DEI is not the DEI that we as human naturally stand for. Politicians weaponized the discrimination that came from these large companies in an attempt to void us of empathy and logical thinking. Making this issue 'political' instead of human.
If I were to run a company, I wouldn't hire someone less capable than another candidate on the basis of 'compliance' to DEI. But who would? Large companies. For money. And hypocrisy.
And the result is hate among us, making us weak, exploitable. We really aren't immune to propaganda.
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