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[cobbzilla]

To reproduce this error:

1. Create a law that penalizes companies for activities against current employees with attribute X (or who might have attribute X in the future)

2. Watch as companies ride the grey-line getting away with as much as they can whilst (a) staying within the letter of the law and (b) creatively discriminating to avoid hiring anyone who has (or might in the future have) attribute X.

I'm not making a moral judgement, but when you set the system up like this can you really be surprised by the results?

[ryanobjc → cobbzilla]

I hate these kind of sophisticate-cynical arguments.

Yes you are technically correct, and thus get to revel in Being Right. Drinking a celebratory champaign.

Yet we are still having negative outcomes that are highly problematic. And you have contributed nothing except, what, smugness?

[cobbzilla → ryanobjc]

Where you see smugness, I ask you to see reality.

If you want a system that works, design the incentives to align correctly. This is not happening here.

If you leave a T-bone steak on your porch before you sleep, can you really be surprised in the morning to discover the raccoons have gotten it? Do you then blame the raccoons and call them evil? That might feel good but it's not going to solve anything.