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Fighting discrimination is useful to increase competitiveness.

Competitiveness generally leads to strong people gaining status (via knowledge, career-building, business successes, respect of their peers) in a civilized way, that is, with less theft and backstabbing.

This makes areas where discrimination is removed natural enemy of those where theft and backstabbing are the only way. Say, of bureaucracies and crony connections. And if competitiveness is reduced in other areas, they become degenerate and the only strength remains where I said.

So apparently the anti-discriminatory and other such effects of regulations did not outweigh the anti-competitive ones.

And I have to make the obvious right-wing observation that if an anti-discriminatory regulation reduces competitiveness more than increases it, including bureaucratic power and points of failure, then it's a net loss and eventually there will be also more discrimination.

And Musk and Trump and others "removing unneeded regulations" are showing exactly that, Musk is a child of the system he pretends to be against, and without that system he wouldn't exist. Same with Trump.

The problem here is not in truisms said in previous sentences, it's in some things being visible immediately and some over many years, and people being easily deceived.