The ‘Equality’ Racket…Too many people believe that disparities in employee pay or hiring are a sure sign of discrimination.

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Thomas Sowell:

Some time ago, burglars in England scrawled a message on the wall of a home they had looted: “RICH BAST**DS.”

Those two words captured the spirit of the politicized vision of equality — that it was a grievance when someone was better off than themselves.

That, of course, is not the only meaning of equality, but it is the predominant political meaning in practice, where economic “disparities” and “gaps” are automatically treated as “inequities.” If one racial or ethnic group has a lower income than another, that is automatically called “discrimination” by many people in politics, the media, and academia.

It doesn’t matter how much evidence there is that some groups work harder in school, perform better, and spend more postgraduate years studying to acquire valuable skills in medicine, science, or engineering. If the economic end results are unequal, that is treated as a grievance against those with better outcomes, and a sign of an “unfair” society.

The rhetoric of clever people often confuses the undeniable fact that life is unfair with the claim that a given institution or society is unfair.

Children born into families that raise them with love and with care to see that they acquire knowledge, values, and discipline that will make them valuable members of society have a far better chance of economic and other success in adulthood than children raised in families that lack these qualities.

Studies show that children whose parents have professional careers speak nearly twice as many words per hour to them as children with working-class parents — and several times as many words per hour as children in families on welfare. There is no way that children from these different backgrounds are going to have equal chances of economic or other success in adulthood.

The fatal fallacy, however, is in collecting statistics on employees at a particular business or other institution, and treating differences in the hiring, pay, or promotion of people from different groups as showing that their employer has been discriminating.

Too many gullible people buy the implicit assumption that the unfairness originated where the statistics were collected, which would be an incredible coincidence if it were true.

Worse yet, some people buy the idea that politicians can correct the unfairness of life by cracking down on employers. But, by the time children raised in very different ways reach an employer, the damage has already been done.

What is a problem for children raised in families and communities that do not prepare them for productive lives can be a bonanza for politicians, lawyers, and assorted social messiahs who are ready to lead fierce crusades, if the price is right.

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Today I went for lunch at a fish place in Utah.
Part of a chain called, ”Joe’s Crab Shack.”
When we’d go to one of this chain’s outlets in So Cal it would be packed and long waits for our order was common as few workers struggled to keep up.
In Utah, the min wage is lower.
The diners outnumbered the workers.
Food was great, service was exceptional and everybody was happy.

Have “any” of these people “ever” owned or ran a business?

If not, how are they an authority on this?

Look how much GOVERNMENT wastes money. How little they know about economics in “the real world.”

What if every business in America was 7 Trillion dollars in debt?

These whiners are too ignorant for words.

So, when liberals vote for one candidate over another, aren’t they discriminating? How is that fair? They should be ashamed of their judgementalism and keeping one of the candidates down.