The Triumph of Inequality

PJ Media ^ | August 14, 2017 | David P. Goldman

[Raymond Pamintuan]

We spent a great deal of time talking about inequality of opportunity and outcomes. The tech industry is fanatically progressive in its opinions, as the unfortunate James Damore, formerly of Google, recently learned. The tech industry's drivel about diversity and equality masks a guilty conscience: Digital technology creates inequality of a kind we have never seen before in human history.

Instead of talking about inequality of outcomes, suppose we talked about inequality of knowledge?

Three hundred years ago, pretty much everyone knew how their technology worked. Europe had lived for a millennium on the innovations of the Carolingian Renaissance: the water wheel, the horse collar, and three-field crop rotation. Everyone knew how a water wheel worked. Water pushed the paddles and gears turned the millstones. Not everyone knew how a steam engine worked, but a lot of people did. The same applied to internal combustion engines.

[Excellence]

There has always been inequality, and within every species.

[Moltke]

'Spengler' is always worth a read.

American universities admit black students at roughly the same rate as white students, but the graduation rate for black men six years after matriculation is just 40%, vs. 70% for Asian men and 62% for white men. We blame their failure on "micro-aggression" (but don't explain why black women, who presumably are more oppressed even than black men, have a much higher graduation rate).

I think that last one is fairly easy to explain: Black women take the kind of courses it's easier to pass. Like, Black Women Studies. And some black men don't really need to graduate in the first place...they just move on to the NBA or NFL...