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> But accounting for cultural and biological differences matters

This could mean different things to different people

Lets imagine we have a perfectly objective, merit based hiring/admissions process. We could still have proffeshions with 1% women, or 1% blacks, etc.

This could be caused by culture, say no women want to be bricklayers or software developers. Or men spent insane amount of effort, like more than is logical.

There is still a valid debate, what do we do about this. Maybe you should not just 'let it play out'.

Like we should hypothetically reward people that work hard.

But recently we had some poor intern at Goldman literally die from overwork. He worked himself to death, died for like £30K salary, what a waste.

Should we really reward that? Should the company face some consequences if this keeps happening?

Obviouslt we kniw 'Back in the day' culture for women was such, that they would not be prepared, in skills and in attitude, to compete with men in education or employment.

If we never went for cultural change, it would still be that way.

It think it's really important that at early stages in life more people are given a chance to change course. That's what educational institutions are for.




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