Posted on 05/23/2019 3:33:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
In his book "Discrimination and Disparities," economist Thomas Sowell notes that a disproportionate percentage of first-born siblings become National Merit scholars compared to siblings born later, presumably because the first-born starts life with no sibling competition for parental attention. This, says Sowell, illustrates the absurdities of expecting equal results when equal results do not even occur within the same family among siblings raised under the same roof with the same parents.
When I was growing up in South Central Los Angeles, one of my closest friends was "Paul." We met in the second grade and attended the same elementary school, middle school and high school. Not only did we take many of the same courses with the same teachers, our houses were identical.
When I first invited Paul to my home, about a half-mile from his, he was astonished. "Whoever built your house," he said, "built mine, too." He was right. When I visited his house, I found that the only difference was that my house had one tiny additional window that his did not. Same schools. Same teacher. Same neighborhood. Same house design.
Paul was a gifted athlete. Name the sport, he excelled. He was a starting pitcher for the baseball team, the starting shooting guard for the basketball team and the starting quarterback for the football team. He picked up a tennis racquet, hit balls against a backboard for a few weeks and then made the tennis team.
His parents were divorced, making Paul one of the few kids in the neighborhood at that time to come from what my parents called a "broken home." Paul saw his dad infrequently. He rarely spoke about him. When he did, it was not positive.
Paul had a problem with anger. For the smallest offense, he could tell someone off, friend or foe, sometimes even his basketball coach. One time, after Paul came late to practice again, his basketball coach threatened to bench him the following game. Paul barked back, "Either I play or we lose." He played. They won.
When the coaches from major colleges came to see Paul play basketball, his best sport, they were impressed. But then they asked the high school coach about Paul's character, whether he was "coachable." Paul's coach, concerned about maintaining his reputation with college coaches, told the truth. Paul, he said, was a "coach killer." Bye-bye, Notre Dame. Bye-bye, Duke. Bye-bye, UCLA.
Paul ended up going to a small local college, not known for basketball. Did he double down, get better in hopes of transferring to a powerhouse basketball school? Hardly. Paul sulked, blamed racism and spent his first year of college playing basketball halfheartedly -- that is, when he wasn't smoking dope and opining on "the oppression of the black man in America."
I went off to college in the East. When I returned during the summer, I visited Paul, who by then had changed his name to "Jamal" to distance himself from the "slave" religion of Christianity. When I informed him that Arab slavers took more blacks out of Africa and transported them to the Middle East and to South America than Europeans slavers took out of Africa and transported to North America, he told me to stop reading "the white man's history." He insisted "racism" had wrecked his basketball career, a career he argued that, but for the racism he encountered, was destined for the NBA. "Paul," I said, "you and I lived in the same neighborhood, in houses designed by the same builder, went to the same schools, took the same classes, had the same teachers. Why didn't 'racism' stop me?"
When I was in law school in Michigan, I visited my aunt who lived in a suburb of Detroit. During one visit, a friend of hers stopped by. He was a black man, about 40 years old. He sat near my aunt and me as we discussed my law school classes. Suddenly, the man began to cry. I could not imagine what I'd said that could've caused such a reaction. "Sorry," I said, "did I say something to offend you?" He gathered himself. "No," he said. "I wanted to go to law school and become a lawyer. But I got sidetracked with 'jackassery,' hung around with a bunch of knuckleheads and just wasted my time."
It doesn't have to be like this. My father always told my brothers and me the following: "Hard work wins." "You get out of life what you put into it." "You cannot control the outcome, but you are 100% in control of the effort." And "before you complain about what somebody did to you, go to the nearest mirror and say to yourself, 'What could I have done to change the outcome?'"
And finally, my dad said: "No matter how good you are, bad things will happen. How you respond to those bad things will tell your mother and me whether or not we raised a man."
Common sense and values mean nothing these days, we see it everyday
“Common sense and values mean nothing these days, we see it everyday.”
At least for too many in our popular culture and for those in key positions of our government, schools and industries.
This, says Sowell, illustrates the absurdities of expecting equal results>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Not only absurd, its insane.
Do not elect insane people to offices if governmant.
Socialists/Communists/liberal fascists are stuck on what others possess, instead of the o[pursuit of happiness and its related freedoms.
As such they are incapable of governance.
They covet, covet , covet and then they rage. rage, rage.
A POX on the lot of them!
“Common sense and values mean nothing these days, we see it everyday.”
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I’m missing Thomas Sewell and Walter Williams. Both are getting up there in age and don’t do public appearances anymore. I see a few bright stars who may replace them but they’re not there yet. Let us hope...
It is factual that the rats don’t have any common sense
We live in clown world. I saw a story the media ignored the other day about a dozen Somalians attacking people with pipes and hammers for being white. Of course, it was a local news only story. But the media did push a story into all the networks when a black kid was Valedictorian. And I ask myself, how many high schools have Valedictorians and what made this one special? So am I a racist or is the media racist?
The world that produced Walter WIlliams, Ben Carson and THomas Sowell disappeared decades ago. Somewhere around Montez or Richard Pryor.
But equal results often occur within identical twins raised under different roofs with different parents.
Moreover, studies of such leftist grand society shaping solutions as Head Start demonstrate that whatever small advantage might be gained by kids who had Head Start is dissipated by puberty.
The evidence mounts that nature not nurture is decisive.
The tech industry billion dollar marxists aren’t trying on stamp out inequality. they lie to congress and say that there aren’t enough skilled and degreed workers in America so they can hire more cheap Indians on visas.
Still, there is hope yet.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3751106/posts?page=1#1
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” - Aristotle
Twin studies were at the core of my genetic psychology courses. The "twins raised apart" showed nearly perfect IQ correlation. When they did not match, a review of birth weight data indicated the poorer performer had a lower birth weight suggesting poorer development in gestation (bad placenta connection).
In cases where the twins were raised in different level of economic opportunity, the one in the poorer circumstance could catch up with the other twin rapidly when afforded the missing support. In extreme cases, the "catch up" might take 18 months. Nature was clearly setting the potentials for success. Leveraging that potential was the missing element.
Given that background, each person is a unique mix. You don't know how much natural potential is present. Exploit and push to explore the limits. Absent a twin for comparison, you work with the person and go with the results.
Bullshit.
Wages are below what they were 20 years ago. Do you pocket the difference or somehow profit in the visa program?
Democrats, for the most part, are globalists. Sovereignists, on the the other hand, recognize the importance of Karma in maintaining a sustainable human population with its ‘actions have consequences’ lesson.
What wonderful parents Larry Elder had.
“Slave religion”? Not exactly.
But, Christianity actually is a “servant religion” which begins with God the Son Himself. It urges the sons of God to “please your neighbor unto his edification.” It has no room for being a bully. If Christ served you, which He did, then you should serve your fellow man.
The old “slave preachers” took a scissors to the bible where it told masters to cease threatening — which is YUGE. It means that slaves were now to be treated as voluntary servants. But that expurgated bible isn’t Christianity. That is a mutilated religion. No honest Christian elevates that nowadays.
It is a pity that Paul/Jamal didn’t get an honest take on Christian faith. That would have given him the patience to wait out the low times to achieve high ones. However it’s not too late for him to learn. Some bloom late, and yet bloom exceeding well.
That is exactly the problem with both kinds of racism: the kind of racism practiced by Jim Crow which denies the uniqueness of the individual and denies his potential to excel; and the kind of racism practiced by the modern Democrat party which reverses that truth and consigns everyone to the worth and destiny of his tribe.
Lies
IBM liked the stateside talent and encouraged them to move to India so they could pay them cheaper.
Additionally IBM has been busted firing those over 50 (and even over 40 is unsafe these days in the tech world).
And at HP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3299400/posts
Fiorina Slams Disney, Then Admits She Used H-1B Program At HP
The Daily Caller ^ | June 10, 2015 | Rachel Stoltzfoos
Posted on 6/11/2015, 8:38:59 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina admitted Wednesday she used the H-1b visa program to hire foreign workers while CEO at Hewlett-Packard, but rejected any comparison to Disney’s recently reported use of the program to displace American tech workers.
“Did we ask American workers to train foreign workers with H-1b visas so that we can pay them less and lay them off?” she said on the Howie Carr radio show Wednesday. “The answer is most definitely no.”
“I can’t remember exactly — it was a long time ago — how many [were brought in],” she added. “But there were some particular jobs where we needed particular sets of skills, where we were growing a particular business.”
Fiorina laid off more than 30,000 employees while CEO of HP between 1999 and 2005, when she was fired. “When you are doing tough but necessary things in tough times, not everyone is going to like that,” she recently told CNN, pointing to the ultimate result of the company surviving tough times and growing....
...As the world’s dominant technology firm, payrolls at International Business Machines Corp. swelled to nearly a quarter-million U.S. white-collar workers in the 1980s. Its profits helped underwrite a broad agenda of racial equality, equal pay for women and an unbeatable offer of great wages and something close to lifetime employment, all in return for unswerving loyalty.
But when high tech suddenly started shifting and companies went global, IBM faced the changing landscape with a distinction most of its fiercest competitors didn’t have: a large number of experienced and aging U.S. employees.
The company reacted with a strategy that, in the words of one confidential planning document, would “correct seniority mix.” It slashed IBM’s U.S. workforce by as much as three-quarters from its 1980s peak, replacing a substantial share with younger, less-experienced and lower-paid workers and sending many positions overseas. ProPublica estimates that in the past five years alone, IBM has eliminated more than 20,000 American employees ages 40 and over, about 60 percent of its estimated total U.S. job cuts during those years.
In making these cuts, IBM has flouted or outflanked U.S. laws and regulations intended to protect later-career workers from age discrimination, according to a ProPublica review of internal company documents, legal filings and public records, as well as information provided via interviews and questionnaires filled out by more than 1,000 former IBM employees.
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