Posted on 05/08/2019 7:25:42 AM PDT by rktman
Last week’s column discussed Dr. Thomas Sowell’s newest book “Discrimination and Disparities,” which is an enlarged and revised edition of an earlier version. In this review, I am going to focus on one of his richest chapters, titled “Social Visions and Human Consequences.” Sowell challenges the seemingly invincible fallacy “that group outcomes in human endeavors would tend to be equal, or at least comparable or random, if there were no biased interventions, on the one hand, nor genetic deficiencies, on the other.” But disparate impact statistics carries the day among academicians, lawyers and courts as evidence of discrimination.
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The problem of capitalism is that there are winners and losers. Success is not shared equally.
The problem of socialism is misery is almost completely universal.
What a mess we are in.
Capitalism rewards based on one’s ambition. Not everyone has the same ambitions in life. Some people want to be a CEO or an Entrepreneur, others just want to sit around and get high all day.
“... nor genetic deficiencies, on the other.”
The elephant in the room that no one wants to see.
The “Bell Curve” explains pretty much everything we see vis-a-vis the races and their levels of success
The problem of socialism is misery is almost completely universal.
Well said.
True. Without a fire in you of either fear of failure or obsession to win outcomes are not equal even when ability is the same.
"Miserable being must find more miserable being. Then is happy." - Maxim Gorky from "The Lower Depths"
Bkmk
I coulda been a contender.
which isn't a problem at all. And in a compassionate religious world the so called losers are kindly assisted. And in a successful capitalist world the losers life like kings compared with the failed unreligious socialist states.
Maybe in the French Constitution but not the USA>
The “Bell Curve” explains pretty much everything we see vis-a-vis the races and their levels of success
There is a high correlation between the average IQ of a population and how successful its culture is.
The essence of a culture are its values. Higher average IQ groups tend to choose values that lead to more success in life.
What’s striking is that even when a lower IQ group is embedded within a successful culture they often refuse to adopt it. Such is the case with many blacks in America. If you’re black and you, for example study hard, you get criticized by other blacks as “acting white”.
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