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The issue is that we don’t need more woodworkers or death row inmates, but we need more programmers. Expanding the talent supply by being more inclusive will be beneficial to the industry and humanity as a whole, though we can definitely argue about how it’s currently being done.
The issue for me is equality. If women faced prison as men do, justice and prison reform would happen faster, as happened in medicine when women became doctors. If people pushing for equality in high-pay, low-injury fields also pushed for equality in low-pay, high-injury fields, they would sound more credible as desiring equality, not just to advance personal interests. We'd also likely see injury rates drop. Let the…
Blanket blind equality is never really our society's goal, we only care about just equality. High tech jobs represent the future of prosperity and society in general, not being equal there will have a lot more negative impacts than other professions that will probably die out much sooner.