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I totally have a preference during hiring and promotions whether I like to admit it or not if someone is like me in some substantiative way. I also put up with more bullshit from them. Power perpetuates itself even when you fight again it
The entire silicon valley is dripping with classic robber baron style clubhouse capitalism enormously predetermined by class.
Whenever everything is run by a bunch of similar looking white dudes who grew up in rich neighborhoods claiming it's some bountiful meritocracy of equal opportunity skill based free market Utopia requires some mighty fine rose colored glasses.
There's an important reality here that organizes and filters the structure.
And to ward off the classic responses:
1 It's not necessarily a bad thing.
2 I'm not saying there's something wrong with it
3 I'm blaming nobody
4 I'm not saying it needs fixing
5 I mostly vote libertarian
This is just a reality and your personal politics shouldn't get in the way of acknowledging the sky is blue and water is wet.
But I find it odd that you wouldn't think there's something wrong with it. Essentially large swaths of the population are locked out. That is a huge problem.
The moral tagging creates emotional walls to keep the acknowledgement of reality out.
Leaving it out avoids tribalism and other tropes from dominating the discourse.
If you can get people to at least agree on the terms of reality and the context it exists in, that's a major win.
This whole class fatalism/cynicism thing is really disheartening to see repeated over and over on the internet as if it’s some fundamental truth, it doesn’t reflect my experience at all. It’s certainly not “sky is blue and water is wet” level certainty.