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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination
Message-ID: <2028@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-May-85 18:32:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 27 18:32:00 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Keywords: race, needs tests
Summary: 

Most societies discriminate in favor of the rich.  It has its advantages.
Most people are from the same subculture, with the same unspoken assumptions.
Rulers all tend to be well educated (though they may lack any comprehension
of the problems of the lower groups).

We've tried discriminating in favor of the poor or supposedly poor (affirma-
tive action).  It has advantages too, but not the same ones.

Here's a new idea:  discriminate in favor of the upwardly mobile.  What
counts isn't your amount of schooling/money but how much MORE schooling/money
(adjusted for degree,$ inflation) you have than your parents.

It should be just as workable as the other two.  And might have its own
peculiar advantages.

--Lee Gold