Is there anything more absurd than protesting that black representation at the elite levels of the Oscars and Hollywood movie stars/directors/producers will somehow trickle down and help poor blacks? And yet it's just the extreme version of the argument that the way to remediate disproportionate levels of black poverty is to produce mor…
Is there anything more absurd than protesting that black representation at the elite levels of the Oscars and Hollywood movie stars/directors/producers will somehow trickle down and help poor blacks? And yet it's just the extreme version of the argument that the way to remediate disproportionate levels of black poverty is to produce more black engineers or physicists.
Once you ask whether interventions should be targeted at blue collar workers instead of white collar professionals that raises questions about the validity of affirmative action. Talk about taking on a sacred cow.
Yeah, it confused micro with macro, I think. If I take an individual person, helping him before an engineer (if he's capable of it) will 100% improve this material life. But that can't scale. Even if everyone had a 150 IQ, that would still mean there are people with 150 IQs cleaning the floor, serving us at restaurants, caring for the sick etc.
Is there anything more absurd than protesting that black representation at the elite levels of the Oscars and Hollywood movie stars/directors/producers will somehow trickle down and help poor blacks? And yet it's just the extreme version of the argument that the way to remediate disproportionate levels of black poverty is to produce more black engineers or physicists.
Once you ask whether interventions should be targeted at blue collar workers instead of white collar professionals that raises questions about the validity of affirmative action. Talk about taking on a sacred cow.
Yeah, it confused micro with macro, I think. If I take an individual person, helping him before an engineer (if he's capable of it) will 100% improve this material life. But that can't scale. Even if everyone had a 150 IQ, that would still mean there are people with 150 IQs cleaning the floor, serving us at restaurants, caring for the sick etc.