> White people are over represented across the workforce because America is not a meritocracy -- benefits of economic class are correlated with race because of white supremacy.
Be careful because white people are actually under-represented[1] at Microsoft relative to their makeup of American population[2] (48% at Microsoft vs 75% country-wide). It's really important to understand this because otherwise DEI initiatives may counter-intuitively increase representation of white people. See school admissions for an example: https://apnews.com/article/hispanics-racial-injustice-scienc...
> a nice thought experiment would be to ask "how much would someone have to pay you to be the same person but black in your organization?"
These days, it would be the other way around. I'd bet many devs would pay a one-time fee of $10k to be a black dev in their organization. The payback period would be very short and would pay dividends for years.
