Meritocracy vs DEI

At an individual level, DEI could lead to a loss of motivation to work hard, excel in a specific professional area and seek more rewards to expand personal aspirational horizons. When unskilled and skilled individuals are equally rewarded, it could be perceived as a disservice to those who have honed their skills through extra hard work. Similarly, recognising those who do not or have no similar capacity to contribute equal effort may feel like a penalty for those who are dedicated and industrious. This loss of motivation could lead to declining individual achievement and ambition.

At the community level, DEI promotes a tapestry of cultural, ethnic, religious, and racial diversity. However, if DEI is implemented aggressively, this diversity could lead to social fragmentation, threatening the bonds of social cohesion. Distrust can fester among different groups, eroding the sense of unity and shared purpose. Each community becomes autonomous, and no community wants to be dictated by other communities.

This tendency further weakens the sense of national identity, as there is no overarching ideology or political force to unite all communities. Instead, the focus shifts loyalties and allegiance to original and transnational sentiments and identity. Consequently, larger communities seek to reclaim their original ethnic identities to respond to the diminishing sense of localised national unity.

While presenting an illusion of equal outcomes at the national level, the quality of services decreases significantly, and an alarming decline in the effectiveness of social institutions diminishing productivity will become the new norm. We will see more medical and aviation incidents, further decreasing public trust in these institutions.

The ideology of DEI has become so entrenched that it has created a new class of activists, beneficiaries and defenders against anybody who can question it, like me. This new group becomes more emboldened, organised and finally dictatorial quite soon in deciding how far society can be diversified or unified, how equity will be applied equally or favourably, and who is included or excluded.

Ultimately, DEI threatens to undermine the very essence of capitalism-not by fostering improvement but by dismantling existing structures. It risks steering society toward a model reminiscent of socialism, even though no socialist regime fully embodies the principles of DEI. We may even find ourselves in a bizarre situation – a half-socialist system where the state becomes absolute and a half-feudal system where individuals, despite their intelligence and skills, are reduced to the status of slaves for powerful elites, expected to toil without recognition or reward.