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dude you sound like those people 30 years ago protecting discrimination against certain races/classes: "It is my property, i don't want to rent it to Black/Asi

by ardit33 17y ago

dude you sound like those people 30 years ago protecting discrimination against certain races/classes: "It is my property, i don't want to rent it to Black/Asian/whatever race you don't like." Sorry, discrimination is discrimination, and discriminating somebody just b/c they worked on a company x, in a very systematic way (and colluding with other companies on this), seems very anti-competitive. At the end, is the employees that suffer b/c there is less competition for their skills.

randallsquared 17y ago
Trying to turn "people have a right to control what's theirs" into something you can't say? :)
- mahmud 17y ago
  Well, I hope everyone reading this downvotes randallsquared and goes through his posting history for a similar treatment. Oh wait, you don't like that? Yeah, it's called conspiracy. You have the right to do whatever you want with your property, but you can not conspire with your friends against a helpless segment of society that's trying to make a living .. or any other segment for that matter.
  - randallsquared 17y ago
    Well, I hope everyone reading this downvotes randallsquared and goes through his posting history for a similar treatment. :) Oh wait, you don't like that? Yeah, it's called conspiracy. Well, "conspiracy" often implies secretiveness, so I'm not sure you qualify. Don't worry, though, since unlike if our positions were reversed, apparently, I don't want you thrown in jail for advocating mass downmodding.
byrneseyeview 17y ago
I agree with those people, actually. I don't see why it's wrong for people to choose who they associate with. That seems like a pretty basic freedom to me. Discrimination is the ability to tell things apart. If Google has a rule against poaching from their friends and partners, that's fine with me; if they're underpaying all of their employees, what you're really saying is that someone who doesn't participate in the cartel gets their choice of the top technical talent in the valley. If you seriously believed this, you'd be raising money for a startup to exploit it, rather than complaining about it on news.yc.

by ardit33 17y ago

randallsquared 17y ago

Trying to turn "people have a right to control what's theirs" into something you can't say? :)

mahmud 17y ago
Well, I hope everyone reading this downvotes randallsquared and goes through his posting history for a similar treatment. Oh wait, you don't like that? Yeah, it's called conspiracy. You have the right to do whatever you want with your property, but you can not conspire with your friends against a helpless segment of society that's trying to make a living .. or any other segment for that matter.
- randallsquared 17y ago
  Well, I hope everyone reading this downvotes randallsquared and goes through his posting history for a similar treatment. :) Oh wait, you don't like that? Yeah, it's called conspiracy. Well, "conspiracy" often implies secretiveness, so I'm not sure you qualify. Don't worry, though, since unlike if our positions were reversed, apparently, I don't want you thrown in jail for advocating mass downmodding.

byrneseyeview 17y ago

I agree with those people, actually. I don't see why it's wrong for people to choose who they associate with. That seems like a pretty basic freedom to me. Discrimination is the ability to tell things apart. If Google has a rule against poaching from their friends and partners, that's fine with me; if they're underpaying all of their employees, what you're really saying is that someone who doesn't participate in the cartel gets their choice of the top technical talent in the valley. If you seriously believed this, you'd be raising money for a startup to exploit it, rather than complaining about it on news.yc.