Comment Re:I'm all for skewering Amazon, but... (Score 1) 123
"Everyone wins."
Not the person farther down the Desirable Minority totem pole who was overlooked.
"Everyone wins."
Not the person farther down the Desirable Minority totem pole who was overlooked.
" the company has obligations under Affirmative Action "
"affirmative action" is not an obligation. It is a (poor) choice.
That organization has embodied weaponized identity politics to such an extent that an article quoting them non-ironically deserves dismissal.
"requirements apply to public colleges"
Not "non-profit" ones.
We can't have any pressure on public colleges to stop producing $useless_degree graduates, can we.
"didn't personally want to make his private life so public" somehow clashes with "I'm so proud
"money was taken from you in order to provide yourself a retirement in your old age"
That relationship is only putatively causal. The money taken from "you" has already been spent, several times over.
You might note that it is because of social engineers that taxpayers are paying those transfers in the first place.
no, just meh
Hello, "cynical".
Way to miss the whole original point. Budding social engineers should do their experiments in such a way that -they- pay the price for failure, not everyone else.
I would gladly opt entirely out of the corresponding system here if I only could.
Try that experiment at your own expense, not someone else's.
... yeah, or not.
At least one indubitable fact today was that the only thing that stopped the bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun.
That naivete is darned charming.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson