In a constitutional democracy, one should hope that the government (in particular the courts) work against the will of the people. That is the entire point of having a constitution which guarantees civil liberties to minorities. If the government never worked against the will of the people, then we wouldn't have any guarantees for groups which have been excluded from the political process.
The market will work it out, as they go out of business, replaced by employers with saner hiring policies.
Right, like the market worked out overpaid idiotic executives and badly designed operating systems. People put way to much faith in the markets ability to solve small inefficiencies like this.
Like natural selection, the market only acts on what's there and cannot make individual companies totally efficient. A company only needs to be resistant to being out-competed to survive. And this can be done in a variety of ways that have nothing to do with efficiency (intellectual property, anyone?).
Thank you! I'm a PhD working in academia and nothing makes me angrier than listening to doctors, lawyers, and (shudder) MBAs justify their outrageous salaries by saying "we have to work so hard." I entered a field where less than 50% of those who seek jobs in the field can find them, our pay stinks, and we have to spend 5-6 years after undergrad as basically indentured servants.
Universities that train doctors, lawyers, and MBAs survive because of us. We spent equally long or longer training, but we're perfectly happy to take lower salaries because we love what we do.
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission
