Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!OHIO-STATE.ARPA!TESTA-J%OSU-20 From: TESTA-J%OSU-20@OHIO-STATE.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Wealth and discriminatory hiring Message-ID: <12241313021.60.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 17:40:46 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12241313021.60.MCGREW Posted: Tue Sep 23 17:40:46 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 22:43:48 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: TESTA-J%OSU-20@ohio-state.ARPA Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 37 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu From: "Keith F. Lynch" > From: Lynn Gazis > > Well, a person with enough money could bribe everybody not to > hire me, ... > > Why would anyone wish to do this? And how much would it cost? If >you apply at 100 companies, and if your worth to them is about twice >your salary (i.e. you and the company would benefit equally by your >working there) he would have to pay these companies more than 100 >times your salary. Not just once, but every year. And if you apply >at a 101st place, he must now pay your salary again, to the 101st >company. Unless the 101st company didn't get the word, or simply >refused to go along with such bribes. In which case they would hire >you and the rich man would be out millions of dollars with no gain at >all. > Each time you apply at a company, you are essentially fining him >the value of your salary. Who is hurting whom? Aaah, but you're assuming that the person being targeted is the *only* person capable of doing the job. Why would someone have to pay the TOTAL amount of your salary as a bribe to someone else to not hire you? Let's say that there are TWO candidates for a job, approximately equally qualified. It might be adequate inducement for me to go up to the hirer and say "i'll give you ten bucks not to hire that one guy". Or a dinner... or some other bribe. Most likely, it would be something of personal benefit to the person doing the hiring, rather than something which would help the company. Or the promise of a future favor, which would have NO monetary value -- the rich man wouldn't have to be out millions of dollars. -joe testa- ------- -------