Post #2482995

2026-01-13 17:36 UTC

But capitalism is about making a profit above all else, isn't it? If you purposely ignore 20-50% of the potential hiring pool regardless of qualifications simply because you're a bigot, someone else is going to hire them (potentially for less) and simply outcompete you.

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@LePoisson@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 17:59

That's not how it works in real life and I think you know that. Capitalism is its own complex beast and one I'm not going to opine on here but I fucking *wish* we lived in a meritocracy where you could just hire people that are good and magically crush it in the market. We very much don't.

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@edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-13 17:45

Are you actually this naive or are you engaging in bad faith? Are you unaware that racism exists and is rampant? Are you aware that capitalism as practiced is not remotely a meritocracy and there's no actual free market?

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@agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 19:20

So you're saying that making it so people hire based on how qualified they are rather than, say, race, is actually good for business. Because there are flawed and bigoted people out there, and even though a capitalist business is about making a profit, there's people out there who would rather screw up the system over petty differences than have business be better and innovate more.

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