Companies Are Increasingly Rejecting Women’s Job Applications: Report 2024
5th June 2024
Nobody in the Woke World can think things through and anticipate that people (a) respond to circumstances and (b) won’t always do what those in power want them to do. All of Professor Atwater’s preferences will not change the fact that people will react to events with the minimum effort they need to avoid unpleasantness.
Democrats fumble this all the time: “Oh, well, all we have to do is pass a law and everything will be sunshine and unicorn farts forever.” T’ain’t necessarily so…. Minimum wage laws don’t force employers to raise everybody’s wages, they merely destroy the jobs of people who are not worth that minimum and encourages employers to automate, as Gavin Newsom is finding out in California. Rinse, repeat. Some government agency made a regulation that food manufacturers had to clean their machines thoroughly (and expensively) when switching from foods containing gluten to foods that didn’t contain gluten so that no gluten-sensitive person would be in danger of ingesting gluten. The manufacturers didn’t clean their machines; they merely added trace amounts of gluten to all the foods they made so that Everything Was Made With Gluten and they were off the hook. Presto chango! Problem solved!
Reality is what happens while you’re busy making plans. Unintended consequences will bite Noble Efforts right square in the ass EVERY SINGLE TIME.