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Re:Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.... by xamuel on Sunday April 19, 2015 @10:52AM (#9403344)
You make some good points. Re: your question,

Realistically: People with severe handicaps can't compete in major league sports, and society makes no serious effort to "fix" this. If someone's brain chemistry makes them unable to compete in a field for whatever reason, they shouldn't make that field their dayjob.

Pipe dream: See eli_gottlieb's insightful comment. Basic income maybe?

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Re:Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.... by falcolas on Sunday April 19, 2015 @01:58PM (#9404054)
> People with severe handicaps can't compete in major league sports, and society makes no serious effort to "fix" this.

Given that 99%+ of the population can not participate in major league sports, it's harder to see this as an imbalance.

A better example would be the physically handicapped. Is it OK to exclude someone in a wheelchair from a software development job when they are equal to other applicants in every other way? How about someone who is blind?

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