Political Meme Thread 21.9.5 Endwalker

You cannot guarantee any arbitrary level of diversity without discriminatory hiring practices. Random chance alone would bely that.

Umm . . . it says “salary” right on it. Try again.

That’s assuming everyone playing the game makes the same salary. So, still socialism.

Yeah, and with some service jobs the "socially mandatory customer contribution to criminally underpaid employees" is called a "tip." Lots of things are called something but actually seem like another thing. Everyone gets the same money for basically existing, that seems more like UBI rather than a salary.

Momopoly is meant to be anti-capitalism, but most people's house rules take away from the original concept and make it a different game. However, I just thought of one that will make it more like what it's supposed to be: Rules as written*, except instead of $200 for passing GO, as the beginning, everyone rolls one of the dice, multiplies their roll by 100, and that's what they get when they pass GO. I'm going to have to try that at some point.

* Free Parking is just Free Parking, there's no pile of money to win. If a person lands on an unowned property and doesn't buy it, it's auctioned off and someone must buy it, if there's no more house and/or hotel pieces left in the box, no one gets to buy houses or hotels until someone sells some. Played this way a game usually takes 20-30 minutes instead of several hours.

Let's call it Universal Basic Salary and avoid any opposition then.

This sort of complaint seems to assume that existing default practices are not discriminatory.

Wasn’t the inventor of Monopoly an actual socialist?

That sounds familiar.

Yep.

After controlling for all other variables like the demographics of relevant graduates and market trends and whatnot, why shouldn't a companies workforce resemble the community around it (or at least their customer base) unless some hiring manager has their thumb on the scale?

First, due to the obvious reality that you are not hiring strictly from the immediate neighborhood around your place of business.

Second, because you will in all likelihood not get an exact distribution of applicants that reflect the proportionality of the neighborhood surrounding your place of business.

Third, because selecting by qualifications alone will not always inevitably lead to a workforce reflecting the exact demographic proportionality of the neighborhood surrounding your place of business.

There is no way to guarantee region-accurate proportionality without enacting that as your overriding goal.

I already said "controlling for other variables." That some employers would cast a wider net for new hires would be one of those variables, as would a lack of Jewish applicants at Bob's Saturdays-Only Bacon Buffet, the exciting new restaurant franchise I'm going to PM you about starting with me.

Let me ask you a question; Do you like money?

Let me ask you a second question; Wouldn't you like to work only one day a week?

Let me ask you a third question: Do you panic around grease fires?

I’m on the fence about only working one day a week. I kind of need work to keep me out of trouble/occupy my mind. Also, work sucks, I know.

Exactly, we very much take the approach of trying to cast a wide net, recognizing that traditional strategies could in themselves be a source of self perpetuating bias.

The fuck is all that shit you left by the stairs?

Surprises to let you know he cares.

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