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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by tptacek on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:48PM (#12457161)
Because we tried that and it didn't work. It wasn't a single decision that resulted in redlining that forced all the black people in cities to under-served slums. It was an aggregation of millions of personal decisions, many of them by otherwise reasonable people who were simply responding to the very powerful human cognitive bias of loss aversion. So, as a society, we decided to do what can to foreclose on that pathology.
Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by arielb1 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:43PM (#12458471)
Why loss aversion? People don't want a black person in their home because they believe that black people are more likely to mess up their home than white people. They would rather not rent out their home at all.
Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by tptacek on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:16PM (#12458692)
Yes, that is what loss aversion means.
Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by im4w1l on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:49AM (#12459884)
Are you saying that if black people live in one society and white people live in one society, then the black one will necessarily be hundreds times worse than the white one?

Because that's what it sounds like you are saying.

Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by eropple on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:56PM (#12471251)
That's not at all what he's saying. He's saying that, when you segment off the institutionally subjugated part of your population--the part of the population who has historically been denied economic opportunities, educational opportunities, and legal rights--you are going to have two populations that have very different growth curves.

And, historically and into the present, there are cultural incentives (racist-ass racism) and economic incentives (risk aversion) to make that happen.