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> are you willing to live in a world in which a company might openly state that part of the reason for their success is age discrimination? Actually, yes. I'd
by cableshaft 9y ago
> are you willing to live in a world in which a company might openly state that part of the reason for their success is age discrimination?
Actually, yes. I'd rather they admit it than achieve pretty much the same effect through loophole means.
> And could they even acknowledge this publicly without it negatively impacting their success?
I'm not sure in which way you mean this. Are you presupposing that they would be successful by discriminating by age, or do you mean that the public shouldn't be free to condemn or boycott them for stating what they did (without taking action against them), or do you just mean without being punished by the government for it? I'm okay with the latter.
- Consultant32452 9y agoI suspect you'll find a correlation between age bias and economic success for businesses. That may be a positive or negative correlation. And that may vary across cultures, industries, etc. Maybe old Mexican women are statistically just as good at nursing as young white women, but maybe old American white men are not. I'm not presupposing age discrimination would be successful, I'm suggesting that no corporation, economist, or politician would likely be willing to publicly acknowledge that age discrimination is good for business. The question is, if it could be proven that hospitals who hire more old white American male nurses make less money than hospitals who hire old Mexican female nurses, what differential outcomes would you be willing to accept? Would a company policy discouraging hiring old white men be okay?