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if you think hiring is a fair meritocracy you are naive. Good looking people tend get hired more often. Get higher salaries. And getting hired is often about
by haha9993 8y ago
if you think hiring is a fair meritocracy you are naive.
Good looking people tend get hired more often. Get higher salaries.
And getting hired is often about good your network is. And the richer you are or your parents are, the likelier you are to get an internship or a coveted job because you are around the "right" people.
And there is also Cronyism, which I have realized is more prevalent that I thought as my career has advanced.
- malvosenior 8y agoAnd now we can add yet another mechanism that destroys meritocracy by being openly prejudiced against people based on their skin color and gender. Only the old forms of advantage still exist. The rich white men are still getting jobs based on their networks, but now poor and middle class white men are rejected purely based on who they are, not what they've done.
- yongjik 8y agoWell, on the brighter side, when a poor/middle-class white guy gets hired, they no longer have to suffer the soul-crushing agony of "Did I get hired because of my skin color? What will my coworkers think of me?" What is good for the goose...
- haha9993 8y agohow do you suggest we even out the playing field after 100s of years of institutionalized racism? institutionalized racism affects generation after generation. but somehow you want to tell those affected, "everything is fair now, move along"
- malvosenior 8y agoAs one of those affected (see my other comments on this thread), I want to be judged on the output of my work and not on my skin color.
- haha9993 8y agothat is OK for you. but may not be OK for everyone affected.
- malvosenior 8y agoThere are multiple people here saying the same thing. Paternalistic silencing of minority people’s actual opinions is definitely a form of racism. You should probably take that into consideration before speaking for others.