If you choose to do business in a state, province, or city, you are subject to their laws. If you choose to practice discrimination in your place of business, you are subject to anti-discrimination laws. Trying to strip it down to a simple binary absent of context has zero bearing on reality when that context is reintroduced.
We know what a workforce that freely allows discrimination looks like. There’s a reason those laws exist.
What Blizzard was doing went against ethics, the law and proper business management.
I can understand if only dudes were putting in the work, then yeah, they should fill up the spots, but if your best assets happen to be female, and you’d rather pass on them just because you feel the need to give raises to your buddies then that’s just bad practice in every conceivable way.
It’s entirely possible for the government to tell businesses that they can’t discriminate on the basis of race or gender without telling them which specific individuals to hire and without making all their hiring decisions for them. So the simple answer to your question is that you are over simplifying and presenting a false dichotomy.
Or to put put it in even simpler terms for you: Nobody here is obligated to be as stupid as you need them to be.
People should promote however they see fit. If they want to promote men, then promote men. If they want to promote women, then promote women. If it is a private business then what does it matter how they achieve success? If people do not approve of it then stop giving them your money. Do people look into the history of companies that have existed for over 60-70 years to see what practices they have partaken in to achieve that success? I think people should because it’s interesting but if the media doesn’t talk about it nobody seems to care.
When I become aware of a company with shady business practices then I start to factor it into my decisions when it comes to giving them my money. I usually don’t change because the convenience is too great for me to part with and I recognize I don’t care enough about the supposed cause. It’s on my conscience at least and that might force me to give to charity as a way to make up for it. But it doesn’t.
Got off subject there but I was just saying how there is always something wrong with something. How much are you willing to dig? How much are you willing to part with? How do you make peace with the fact that you are probably no better than others? It’s hard to know when to call people out if you don’t even call yourself out.
Take care.
Oh man. I forgot to answer the question. The government should leave it up to the employers to decide how they want to hire and promote within their own business.