Hiring and Firing

Oopsies at Yahoo:

In the [discrimination] suit, as reported by The Mercury News, Ard alleges Mayer encouraged the use of an employee performance rating system to “accommodate management’s subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo’s male employees.”

Ard also accuses Kathy Savitt, Yahoo’s former chief marketing officer, and Megan Liberman, the current editor-in-chief of Yahoo News, of discriminating against men. As evidence, the lawsuit alleges women accounted for less than 20 percent of the “top managers … including the chief editors of the verticals and magazines” reporting to Savitt when she started with the company.

You might think, because I’m a dude who provides for his family by working in tech, that I’d be upset about this. I’m not. Hiring (and firing) managers should be free to hire whomever they want to hire, for whatever reasons. whether they are good or bad for the actual business. Only actual stakeholders have moral authority in setting that policy and decision-making, not any unaccountable third party.

In the same way Net Neutrality was stupid because no one, ever, at any point in history, has treated all information the same, trying to stamp out discrimination through public policy is stupid. Not just stupid, but impossible. It’s like asking someone to not see the color red; it’s quite literally not in a human’s epistemological makeup to not discriminate. It’s how healthy brains operate.

Mitigating effects of discrimination through state fiat is also impossible, since only certain groups in good favor with the bureaucracy will be benefit in these discrimination suits. Men qua men ain’t likely going to be one of those favored demographics.

Good luck, guy.