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The idea that hiring the best person for a position is "indefensible" is absurd. Civilization is built on putting competent people in charge of important resour
by quotemstr 7y ago
The idea that hiring the best person for a position is "indefensible" is absurd. Civilization is built on putting competent people in charge of important resources. This way, good decisions get made. You can't just arbitrarily mix and match people to achieve some utopian ideal without seriously degrading the overall quality of resource allocation decisions that society makes. Fairness is an excellent goal. If you do it right, fairness is compatible with meritocracy.
- ambivalents 7y agoI misused the word -- it should actually be the opposite, 'defensible.' I will edit my original post. What I mean is that it can be a copout that hiring managers use and is hard to argue with. Almost everyone will agree that hiring the best for the job is the desirable outcome. It just takes for granted that all qualified applicants were even considered.