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The free market usually fails to discriminate, because people are more greedy than they are bigots. This is why government help is enlisted to enforce bigotry -
by skookumchuck 9y ago
The free market usually fails to discriminate, because people are more greedy than they are bigots. This is why government help is enlisted to enforce bigotry - often in the form of required licensing, limiting the number of people entering a career, etc.
- jacalata 9y agoThe free market discriminated against black people in the US very effectively, even after the government attempted to enforce non-discrimination (see redlining).
- skookumchuck 9y agoJim Crow made discrimination legally mandatory, because greed kept undermining voluntary discrimination. See "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" by Woodward.