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Would you be more comfortable with the government awarding contracts to build bridges to a construction company that hires its civil engineers through family co
by cherryteastain 2y ago
Would you be more comfortable with the government awarding contracts to build bridges to a construction company that hires its civil engineers through family connections, or via a more objective and technical recruitment process?
- lmm 2y agoIf you think you can find a company that size that never hires a useless admin assistant out of nepotism, I have a bridge to sell you. Whether the engineers have the proper qualifications is something that it's reasonable to care about. Whether there's any less-than-optimal decisionmaking even in unrelated parts of the company is not.
- contagiousflow 2y agoThe difference is higher education is supposed to be a ladder. That may sound like idealism but removing (or limiting) that ladder based on class is against any ideals of economic mobility or meritocracies.