@dave@Piss_Ant You’re selecting data from one single university. Where is the information about legacy applicants? Affirmative action pales in comparison.
@dave@Piss_Ant I thought you were smart enough to understand that the people admitted to universities are not chosen based on test scores. Legacy admissions give an advantage over acceptances many times over what affirmative counter balanced.
Show me the test scores of the people admitted and not just of people applying. I’m sure you understand the difference.
And I’m sure you’re also aware the privileged class are specifically advantaged and have foreknowledge and tutoring to score well in entrance tests. Compare the Harvard test scores against double blind general aptitude and intelligence tests and you will see different results.
Did you watch the video I linked? Beau gets what you don’t. Your motivated reasoning is working against objectivity and against your own interests should you or someone you know apply to Harvard. The black guy didn’t bump you from your spot at Harvard, 6 other legacy applicants with poorer test scores did that.
@dave@Piss_Ant Your assumption that test scores are the determining factor is incorrect. Affirmative action reduced white applicants with inferior test scores to be admitted over people of colour with superior test scores. Even with affirmative action, it still happened, it just happened less. People of privilege and family history with a university are favoured, and they are overwhelmingly white.
@mar77i@Erik The main issue is rich people do not get richer off their labour. They get richer off of other people’s labour. They extract the value generated by the working class. Remember that work is where money comes from.
If rich people didn’t also control politicians in the unites states through legalized bribes through lobbying and campaign donations, then laws wouldn’t continue to favour rich people extracting more and more wealth. All the money and wealth comes from the labour of people. The people are grossly underpaid so the rich can extract more and more of their wealth. It will eventually reach a point where there are too many people who can no longer sustain themselves on the small amount they are underpaid and then the shit will hit the fan. When people like you are going to feel it too. So don’t wish for this to continue. Fix it before then.
What fascinates me are people who are not doing this (they work for a living), yet defend rich people doing it. They are taking from you too, but because there are people worse off than you, you think you’re not suffering it.
@mar77i@Erik It’s interesting how you’re speaking of a coordinator. That person is doing work, and should be compensated for that work. Not insanely over compensated, fairly. Even the CEO who has an active role should be compensated, but not hundreds or thousands of times the rate most employees are compensated. But I’m actually talking about the class of people above all of that. The people that extract widely disproportionate amounts of money for no work. People that sit on boards that have close that have close to zero active role in a company should not be extracting the wealth they do through stock and stock dividends and pay little in taxes.
I’m pro business. I’m not pro under paying employees to make the ones at the top disproportionately richer.
@hydroxxide@mar77i@Erik That's absolute nonsense rubbish. What's beautiful about the oligarchs is how they've convinced you it's in your best interests to defend them. They literally have taken your wealth and you're glad they did it.
he/him/they/them/schmenge. You probably won’t like me. I'm left. I'm about cooperation, not competition. I'm going to respect and support every protected class of people, even the ones you hate. Maybe especially them. But I'll challenge individuals when they say repugnant things no matter who they are. Rich people are a problem. They have our money.