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> what if equality of opportunity STARTS with mildly rebalancing equality of outcome? What if it doesn't? Then you're sowing aninmosity by unjustly favoring so
by luckylion 6y ago
> what if equality of opportunity STARTS with mildly rebalancing equality of outcome?
What if it doesn't? Then you're sowing aninmosity by unjustly favoring some people over others, spend billions of dollars, throw back humanity's progress by not chosing the best person for the job etc, all for nothing.
Before you start, you better be damn sure that you're 100% right. The recent examples with the gender pay gap all but vanishing when you calculate it scientifically do not bode well for these kinds of ideologies even getting the fundamental data right - hard to believe they'll get the therapy right if they fail on that stage already.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y agoThe pay gap might largely vanish when you control for different factors, but that doesn't mean there's no gap or no issue. That just means it's driven by gaps in those other factors. If you pressure different people to make different career choices, for example, you can't just then control for those choices and say it's all good and everything's fair.
- luckylion 6y agoAnd if you remove all agency from people, they can't make any choices, everything they do is considered a choice they were pressured into. The gap vanished as a "gender gap". The "if you work less hours you will get less money" gap isn't quite the same.