It's easy to overlook the negative impact of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "Civil rights" sounds great, right? The problem is that under the act most actions that result in disparate outcomes are subject to government scrutiny.
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Sometimes trying to fix a problem with government actually makes everything worse. If you look at a problem that's costing society $10m/year and then "fix" that problem by adding other costs of $100m/year, you haven't actually made society better.
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This is exactly what's going on with the civil rights act. Add it up. What's the cost of the diversity industry + most of HR + productivity declines due to AA + changes in actions due to fear of liability under the act? At least hundreds of billions a year.
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And this cost doesn't even get into the losses from white flight, the fear of going out in cities at night, the crime surge following the act, and the general losses of social cohesion & increased use of thr legal system resulting from forcing different groups together.
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It's worse than that. Disparate impact looks solely at outcomes and assumes racism/sexism explains why a company doesn't have X% of Group Y in Job Z. It has also infected thinking of the left on all political issues.
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