Solving those barriers is not the role of companies. Solving those barriers is the role of the State and of education.

If america has a vicious "putting people into boxes" problem, maybe they should start solving that problem by providing universal education, not dump the massive imbalance onto companies and then blame them for not taking care of the issue.

Besides, it would actually helped if america also stopped with this racial class bollocks. You are all americans. They constantly remind people that these boxes exist, then say "oh you should not see these boxes". How about you stopping talking about the freaking boxes? All that DEI does is to prominently remind everybody not only that these boxes exist, but if you belong to one of these boxes, you might get a cookie, or not. Gee, I wonder how it's possiblthat this increases inter-box tensions?

How is Chase going to identify if a Zelle transfer is social media related? I built a fence and split the cost 3-ways with the adjoining neighbors who paid me via Zelle. I've used Zelle to get payment for items I've sold in person to people I know. Most of these people I also have contact via social media.

To clarify, TCO might be cheaper for some people with an EV including all factors, but that's not what people think about when buying.

Freedom of speech has never been the same thing as consequence-free speech. For example, in theory, freedom of speech gives you the right to advocate the violent overthrow of the government, but if you actually succeed in getting a mob to form and somebody dies, you can still be punished even though your freedom of speech likely protected you from any prior restraint on that initial advocacy.

Psychological safety, however, does require at least freedom from unreasonable levels of reprisal. If speech isn't actively trying to cause someone harm, then causing someone physical or psychological harm for that speech, threatening their jobs, taking away things they care about, or generally treating them as less than human for being honest is not okay, period, full stop, and if anybody disagrees with that, they can f**k themselves with a wooden spoon.

This is not to say that people should ignore flagrant intolerance, ageism, misogyny, misandry, bigotry in any form, etc., but 99.99% of the time, when somebody thinks that's what's going on, that's not what's actually going on. And disagreeing with a person doesn't give someone the right to be a complete a**hole to that person.

Basically, as a society, at some point along the way, we seem to have forgotten that other people are human beings just like us. And the world is f**ked up enough without people going full vigilante on anyone they don't understand or they disagree with or they don't like for whatever reason and treating those people like s**t and trying to ruin their lives. Cancel culture is f**king bulls**t, whether it is coming from the left, the right, the center, the front, or the back.

That's why if there's only one thing that you impart upon the next generation, teach your kids this: Always assume good intentions in others until proven otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt. Treat others with the respect that you would want to be treated if someone disagreed with you, didn't understand you, was angry at you, was afraid of you, was hurt by you, or just generally didn't like you. In other words, don't be an a**hole.

Not just younger generations. That sort of bad behavior has always been around. The only difference I see is that a lot of younger people no longer seem to be ashamed of their bad behavior, and for that, I blame their parents for failing to teach them to treat others the way they would want to be treated.