Maggie's Farm

Charles Murray (The Bell Curve and others) had a very good response to the United Airlines announcement that racial/sexual profiling would now take a deciding role in their pilot selection process:

"There are well-validated tests of flying aptitude. It seems a reasonable thing for United to reassure us by posting means and SDs (Standard Deviations) of its pilots by ethnicity"

Our economic system is premised on the idea that we exchange our wealth for things of value, making an economy as a result. We can claim as our right an insistence that the efforts toward creating that value are whole-hearted and honest.

So when atheletes start taking a knee and imposing social engineering distractions, their athletic efforts are no longer whole-hearted. The game suffers, as does the revenue. Likewise, when the razor blade maker starts espousing examples of trendy social issues, they are no longer wholly focused on their product. Accordingly, their revenues and profits suffered. You notice we haven't seen any more of those commercials.

It's amazing (to me) that billion-dollar corporations are led by such board-approved cowards, who apparently think of themselves as social leaders. But they're not leading in my opinion, they're simply advocating their way toward almost certain detriment while thinking they have some piece of the market cornered.

But rather than having the market cornered, I think these companies will find themselves in a corner, by their own misguided navigation. Because nobody wants to stake money on their well-being -or even their comfort or entertainment - for a lesser quality product. Nobody wants a politically-attuned, racially-correct, gender-aware brain surgeon. The market place will unmistakably speak, as it has been doing. I guess we'll just have to put up with some misery and keep voting with our pocketbook until the fad clears out.