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Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist by andreilys on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:05AM (#24658758)
Yes it’s already common. Look at the concentration and over representation of Ivy League schools in industries like finance. It’s very unlikely those places would even bother interviewing someone with low social status (I.e. poor and grew up on food stamps).

I don’t think it’s great that this happens, it insulates elites from those with working class backgrounds and accelerates inequality.

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Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist by whimsicalism on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:18AM (#24658824)
> Ivy League schools in industries like finance

This also has to do with the fact that, in consulting and finance, it is the perception of intelligence by the customer that is much more important than the actual intelligence. Managers would rather hire the team of consultants from the Ivy League and rich people would rather pay the management fees for the Ivy League team to manage their money.

In industries that are more directly merit based and less "customer perception" based, you don't have as large of an over-representation.

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Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist by occamrazor on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:42AM (#24659656)
This doesn’t justify the practice. If my clients were racist, should I be allowed to only hire white people?
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Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist by whimsicalism on Friday October 02, 2020 @04:04PM (#24666523)
To be very clear, I'm not claiming the practice is just. It isn't. My only claim is that this doesn't arise just because of bias of the interviewers.
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Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist by derivagral on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:59PM (#24664583)
If you have racist clients, I'd expect that this would manifest more as assigning the "right" demographic of employee to the clients and keep the "wrong" ones far away from those meetings, as opposed to a straight-up hiring restriction.

I don't think GP was trying to justify the practice, but noting that this exists in domains like finance because the product is an image, not actual performance.

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