Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
So we know for a fact that fewer or no workers rights results in very poor condition for workers in every scenario it has ever been tried in, but you say that you are convinced it would be better because you have a philosophical argument for why it works?
Are you talking about worker's rights? or anti-discrimination policies? If we're talking about worker's rights like safety protections and shit like that, then yeah....the gov't should definitely be enforcing that shit. But if we're talking about anti-discrimination policies.....like policies that seek to ensure that groups of races and genders are proportionally represented then those policies most definitely are bad for everyone. Paraphrasing Sowell here...

Imagine you have a taxi cab company. You want to hire drivers. You screen applicants by checking their driving records and you find that 4 out of 5 Irish applicants have drunk driving convictions. So you don't hire those 4 out of 5 drivers, but you do hire 1 out of 5. But now your staff is not directly proportional to your pool of applicants. Irish people are under represented.

Now imagine the government tries to correct that "injustice" by disallowing your ability to check the driving records of applicants. Because, they say, that screening policy disproportionally affects Irish people, therefore it is clearly racist against the Irish.

So now you go hire drivers again, but this time you have to guess who might have a good driving record and who might not. All you have to rely on is group data that says 4 out of 5 Irishmen have DUI's. So now you just don't hire ANY Irish.

That's a clear example of how an anti-discrimination policy increases discrimination. And it's not just a hypothetical. Obama signed an executive order making it so government subcontractors couldn't use criminal background checks to screen employees for staffing government projects. The argument was that a disproportional amount of young black men have petty criminal records from their youth, and that shouldn't hinder their advancement as reformed adults.

What do you think happened??