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Well obviously the government cares, I'm suggesting that they shouldn't. And yes technically you are correct. But that assumes they are exactly equal. If you e

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Well obviously the government cares, I'm suggesting that they shouldn't. There may be an argument that the government shouldn't require non-discrimination by government contractors, but I don't think that there is a particularly good argument, that, given the existence of the requirement as a term of every government contract, that the government should not care that a government contractor is just casually disregarding the terms of its contract with the government and expecting to continue to be paid. > If you exclude a bunch of people for arbitrary reasons then you necessarily get worse results. Some of the best candidates may be excluded. Since Palantir is a government contractor, the argument that they would be hurting the quality of work they do (which is valid, just not supported by mere equality of qualifications) is another reason the government should be concerned. Remember, this isn't an enforcement action under general anti-discrimination law, its an enforcement action under the specific rules that apply to government contractors.