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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.politics,net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination against x
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 15:05:25 EDT
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Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Summary: 

While one might claim that it is an important social gools to ensure that
"black female plumbers are paid as much as white male plumbers", it is
also a very important social goal that superior plumbers are paid more
than inferior plumbers.

The same is true for all jobs.  If you interfere with the above process,
you can easily destroy most of the incentives in society.

The problem with AA laws is that they insist the government decide who
is a superior plumber, programmer or president of IBM.  You can't get
around this.  If somebody criticizes a hiring decision as sexist, and
the employer responds that they think those chose the superior applicant,
the government is required to set down standards to decide who is the
superior applicant.

Thank you, but no damn way I want this to happen.  No bureaucrat in Ottawa
has the right or competence to tell me what I'm worth.  Or anybody else
for that matter.
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On another hiring note - nepotism.  While it doesn't seem fair that
employers often hire people within families or people they know, you must
understand that, particularly in a small company, the choice of an
employee can be fundamental to the success of the company.  One wrong move
and your company can fail.  Thus many companies chose to go with somebody
they KNOW, even in full realization that there are better people out there
that they don't know.  Can you blame them?  Every company wants to make the
best decision, but if they can't do so safely they will stick with what
they know.  In the long run, the companies who take the risk will do
better, but more of them will go bankrupt, too.  That's corporate Darwinism,
I guess!
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473