European social engineering is just too much. I've never seen so many people willingly obey the orders of clueless bureaucrats.
EU mandates 40% female boards
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Can't you pretty easily manipulate assignment to treatment of you're near the border? Just fire a dude.calling it now...
In 5-10 years, rd papers will be written looking at quarterly earnings for companies just above and below the cutoff and find that this policy helps ~1,000 marginal women impacted directly by this policy and hurts millions of workers, consumers, and shareholders
and if the cultural zeitgeist has not changed course completely by then (it likely will not) then the authors are going to torture the data to show that actually this evidence of discrimination against women earlier in the pipeline -
this is so psychological humiliation. to any fair mind you know that female board women are much more likely than anyone else to be married to equally or better off men/board members etc. All this accomplishes is allow a small pocket of society to double down on its success at the expense of everyone else. Even their kids will miss their mother on weeknights.
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Am I supposed to believe that the US and UK are radically different from the continent?Bar the first sentence this is rubbish. Britain has an even worse political culture with now two unelected and unpopular PMs in a row.
It's a much deeper point about Anglo vs Continental liberal traditions, Common Law v. Napoleanic Code, top-down planning v. local incremental changes, Protestant v Catholic influences and so on. Read Hayek
The US and UK could easily end up implementing this in the future. The US and UK have far more in common with the continent of today than any kind of ancient tradition.
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Bar the first sentence this is rubbish. Britain has an even worse political culture with now two unelected and unpopular PMs in a row.
It's a much deeper point about Anglo vs Continental liberal traditions, Common Law v. Napoleanic Code, top-down planning v. local incremental changes, Protestant v Catholic influences and so on. Read Hayek
Am I supposed to believe that the US and UK are radically different from the continent?
The US and UK could easily end up implementing this in the future. The US and UK have far more in common with the continent of today than any kind of ancient tradition.The US is too distrustful of government to allow this. A couple states might try this but companies will just move to other states.
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Bar the first sentence this is rubbish. Britain has an even worse political culture with now two unelected and unpopular PMs in a row.
It's a much deeper point about Anglo vs Continental liberal traditions, Common Law v. Napoleanic Code, top-down planning v. local incremental changes, Protestant v Catholic influences and so on. Read Hayek
Am I supposed to believe that the US and UK are radically different from the continent?
The US and UK could easily end up implementing this in the future. The US and UK have far more in common with the continent of today than any kind of ancient tradition.The US is too distrustful of government to allow this. A couple states might try this but companies will just move to other states.
How did the federal government go from 1.5% of the GDP to 30%?