Companies who profess to support mental health AND diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for their employees, but who silo their efforts or treat them as unrelated initiatives, are missing yet another intersectional aspect of DEI. The abusive, power-imbalanced, transactional relationship between employers-employees that is foundational to capitalism is emotionally toxic to our human natures that crave connection, affirmation, and mutuality.

How Bias, Abundance and Scarcity Affect Performance This article isn’t about Queen Elizabeth II (“QEII”). It’s not about the British monarchy and their legacy of colonization, imperialism, classism, acquisition, destruction, and so on. It is, but it isn’t. It's about how we (the societal “we”) evaluate people with privilege vs. people without, and how we’ve enabled and endorsed inequity as a result.

Just because something isn’t technically illegal, doesn’t mean it’s legal – and it definitely doesn’t mean it’s ethical. Discriminating against a black person because of their hair is racist. But until 2019, it wasn’t recognized as such by the U.S. courts.