The candidates that a company chooses as important enough to give a job offer will be a biased subset of the population. However, employment law limits the sev

The candidates that a company chooses as important enough to give a job offer will be a biased subset of the population. However, employment law limits the severity of this bias along some important dimensions, and we're able to enforce this law with the help of statistical tests. The same applies to journalism and the galactic-scale sins of omission that are currently occurring. But government regulation is only effective against individual bad actors in a democracy. When the regulators themselves can be expected to be corrupt, government regulation is a cure at least as bad as the disease. Unfortunately, I don't see much hope for the US mainstream until a "Sputnik moment" happens that makes it clear to even those gaining the largest relative advantages from the status quo that they too stand to lose big if current practices continue. And that'll be too late for my family if the Sputnik moment takes the form of Taiwan falling to the PRC.