Comment by kenjackson
5 days ago
I so hate that trying to help historically disadvantaged groups some extra help is considered bad. Like I get not making a group extra powered, but to help women in tech or research into Black prenatal care just seems absurd.
Lets not forget about female CEOs, they should be making 20x more.
Path dependence causes problems, it's better to make sure you can just use current state instead.
Sorry to be dense. What does that mean?
I believe the meaning in plain English is:
Let's not focus too much on the past problems that a group of people had, but let's make sure that the situation is improved for that group right now.
Focusing too much on past and try to tip the scale _because_ the past was so bad may lead to bad outcomes today. It may be perceived as a search for grievances and retribution and not the equalization of outcomes that one claims it should seek.
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