sheepmullet
I’m saying reality is a hell of an antidote to propaganda.
I’m certain French people are far better at recognizing biased and misleading reporting concerning France than I am.
Of course they are! Propaganda is much less effective when you constantly see conflicting evidence with your own lying eyes.
There is a reason why trust in the mainstream media is at an all time low in the US.
Yes America, Australia, the UK, etc are all running a great experiment to see if multiculturalism can work.
The rest of the world might follow if multiculturalism ever ends up working.
Unfortunately that is not really true. But it’s certainly a good idea!
The real question is why is it so expensive?
When I was growing up in my town with about 1000 kids we had 1 kid who was diabetic, 1 attempted suicide, and 2 serious car accidents.
We had plenty of minor problems like broken bones but you didn’t need insurance to cover these.
So it was maybe 800-1000 working adults covering a handful of serious cases over a 14-16 year time period.
I think the hbr article has cause and effect backwards.
It’s obvious that wealthy stable high margin businesses can afford to focus on diversity initiatives.
If we were actually confident that diverse teams were better then gender and race would no longer need to be protected groups.
Exactly! If a couple of people on my team of six leave and they can’t be replaced for 6-12 months then I’m going to quit as well.
There will be more pressure on the remaining team to produce and most of the interesting long term work will be put on hold.
The top tech companies can reject 10 good candidates for every 1 that they hire because there is a massive surplus of engineers who want to work for these companies and so time to hire for them is actually reasonable.
99% of tech companies don’t have the overwhelming surplus of good applicants to make this work. So when they try they see time to hire jump from 4-8 weeks all the way up to 6-12 months without any real decrease in false positives.
In my experience they are closely related.
> You also openly say that you trust people work based on Friday beer
Sure - there is an incredible depth of research on trust building via outside of work/after work activities.
> That sounds like horrible workplace
Strange considering I work at companies regularly listed in “best companies to work for” surveys.
You seem to be assuming there is a lot of peer pressure placed on you if you don’t want to do it.
Why?
I’m simply saying there are always social costs. For example you probably won’t be listened to as much when there are conversations around improving system stability.
It’s like our after work Friday drinks are entirely optional - but lots of people build friendships and trust there and this can often lead to higher productivity.
If you can build these friendships another way or have a different path to an equivalently high productivity then not going doesn’t have an impact on you.
A few history buffs couldn’t find anything to support it....
I’d be interested to know how they did test bridges etc.
Because many optional activities have an impact on your peers and they are unlikely to judge you strictly based upon your job duties?
Than why are there clear correlations (for women) between # of monogamous relationships and likelihood of divorce? As well as between # of sexual partners and likelihood of divorce?
> So it's more valuable to have a woman who isn't independent?
Of course! More flexibility and dependence up to a point is certainly better.
Of course the idea that this means a woman can’t have her own hobbies seems to be taking things to the extreme.
> Seriously?
Yes and honestly.
I married young and I think the troubles we went through together have deepened our relationship in a way that would never have been possible if we were both “emotionally mature”.
I’d also question whether people really do mature “globally” that much - vs maturing in specific contexts and relationships.
For example if women matured significantly in a “global” sense between mid-20s to mid-30s you would expect a big drop in obesity as women started taking better care of their health. But you don’t. Etc etc.
Even then there are agency problems which mean that once a company gets over a certain size there is no natural alignment.
I know plenty of managers tweaking A/B tests until they get the results they want.
> If you don't have a PhD in the field, you don't belong in the big discussions where consequences matter.
Why?
I think what we need is accountability - there should be serious negative consequences for being wrong proportional to how strongly you stand behind an idea.
Were all the climatologists who were confident we were facing global cooling driven from the industry? Stripped of their academic standing?
Then why would I trust the industry?
How does a string of short term relationships show loyalty?
> flexibility means (ability to adapt to change?
Yes and the willingness.
I’ve known plenty of early 20s women who will drop their careers to follow their boyfriend overseas and very few in their 30s who will.
> I can't understand how emotional maturity is of no value
Why should a man find it valuable in a partner?
Loyalty, playfulness, flexibility, kindness, intelligence, high energy levels, ability to have kids, doesn’t already have kids, etc.
None of which are positively correlated with a woman’s age.
Why?
The data suggests it’s close to 50-50.
No they don’t. A 35 year old man can date a 25 year old woman whereas the reverse is a lot less common.
As such the 35 year old man has a lot more options than a 35 year old woman.
> as well as the option of dating divorced men.
Divorced men tend to have very different life goals and expectations than early 30s women.
Maybe because Ontario has ridiculous housing costs?
Id be happy to work for $15/hr if I could get a decent 3 bedroom house for $70-80k.
I mean seriously mortgage costs + $11/hr on top and I would be happy.
Yet even somewhere like London it will cost 400k+ and just forget about Toronto.
It depends on what you mean by “worked”.
1) Have they allowed a slower and more humane shift of workers to other more competitive industries?
Yes. The GM bailout is a great example.
2) Have they helped keep certain skill sets in a country?
Yes. Undoubtably.
Is this important? I think so but there are opposing arguments.
It can take decades to build up an industry from scratch vs a few years to pivot into a related industry.
Think of how long it would take Germany to swap its automotive engineers and factories to producing tanks vs how long it would take a services based country to start producing tanks.
3) Have they lead to the revitalization of an industry?
This ones a lot more murky and it all depends on what time frame you are looking at and what you think the future will hold.
There are certainly examples of it working between first world countries for limited time periods (a decade or two).
I disagree. I’m old enough to have been around before we had so many health problems.
It is one of the main drivers of our quickly increasing health costs.
When I was growing up we had smoking and that’s pretty much it.
> It seems you've managed to miss the point entirely.
Most people will change their lifestyle to help their immediate family when they wouldn’t change to help taxpayers as a whole.
> I hope your family never gets ill
It’s far too late for that - I’m an old man and I’ve seen lots of people I love pass away.
In practice there is a small core group of activities that cause the vast majority of the problems.
> Coordinated and sustained public health programs can reduce the adverse effects of lifestyle
In practice we don’t have the stomach to use techniques that are time tested.
Take obesity - fat shaming works but it’s rough on the people who are being shamed.
Instead of fat shaming though there is a fat acceptance movement.
I haven’t made the choice to look after your parents.
My parents were cleaners and although we were often tight on money we were miles away from extreme poverty.
So have many governments.
Even well intentioned regulations have unintended side effects.
I’d love to see some data.
Of course if you work at the kind of companies that only hire people with a top CS degree then you might be led to believe that.
In my experience though it’s not the case. The majority of people in my office grew up lower middle class.
I’m not here to play word games.