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Originally Posted by wil318466
It's misleading, and that's my point. It paints a very different picture than reality.
I agree, absolutely. Hiring a woman in her early thirties or late twenties is a risk due to family obligations. Happens all the time, and it might be a source of discrimination. It should be looked into. That being said, you can only go by what's in front of you. If you have the best candidate in front of you and she's a 31 year old female, you hire her, almost always.
People are paid differently due to many different circumstances. Some people are always available and always on call and are completely dedicated and devoted to their companies. Should they be compensated equally than the person who works 9-5 and doesn't pick up the phone when called outside of office hours? Of course not. There are real differences between the way some men and some women are willing to work. They are compensated accordingly. I know that is the case at every company I've ever worked at. Do you not agree?
Women tend to make less money because they have, in general, different priorities. This is not the case in all examples, obviously. I guarantee you that if they did a study including only women that have never been married and no children and compared them to men in the same situations that gap dissapears.
Children are the single biggest detriment on female earning potential. I know this is absolutely the case in my family and just the opportunity cost will be way over a million dollars in our lifetime earnings. You pay a HUGE, HUGE price to have children, and females, unfortunately, shoulder almost all of that burden.
Not all lies are the same. The gender wage Gap is a huge, huge lie. Same with global warming (admittedly harder to be sure of). Literally the entire leftist agenda is based on lies. Lies so big they shape public opinion and cause serious issues in society, which result in anger and resentment.
Do you disagree with that? For example, if you believe that minorities in this country are systemically discriminated against, something like the shooting in Dallas last year may be viewed in a completely different light than if you don't believe in it. It really means something.
Your thoughts?
I don't agree it disappears. As you've said just the possibility of having kids could be held against a woman. If all women suddenly became infertile, then maybe it would disappear but then we would have bigger problems now wouldn't we? As you say the big issue this highlights is the cost of children and how that burden falls on heavily women. And again, it has other ramifications, like how we treat single mothers and issues like paid family leave. So no, its a big lie, its not a lie at all. Hope you see how you have allowed yourself to take a minor quibble to lead yourself way too far the other way.
Climate change is really bizarre, the R party is one of a handful of parties in the world that gets upset about it. Do you really think they are the geniuses and everyone else is wrong?
Clearly releasing carbon dioxide into the air is bad. The question is just how bad is it and if/when will it lead to existential doom? I don't know exactly how bad it is, but seems pretty clear we should definitely reduce our emissions as much as we reasonably can. Why the **** not? Has lots of other benefits like energy independence, sustainability, cleaner air, cleaner water, etc.
You ask a Trump voter, who says he likes to rely on his intuition, do you think releasing tons of smoke in the air is bad for the Earth? He would say, yes, of course. Ask him, do you think you should preserve the Earth for your children? He would say, yes, of course. But then you get a bunch of Rs nitpicking the science that tries to estimate just how bad it is and lying about jobs, then all of a sudden it becomes a hot button issue.
Talk about a big, big nasty lie. Trump promising to bring the coal mining jobs back. Natural gas is better, cheaper and cleaner, why the hell would coal come back? Talk about building huge resentment and anger, they went all in with this guy, and he was just lying straight to their face with their livelihoods? Instead of just being straight up with them, and saying yeah, all your jobs went to the natural gas industry, its better, so you should get some training for that. Lot of jobs in solar and wind too, looking a hell of alot more promising industry to get into than coal. Maybe give them some assistance in transitioning, which Ds would be all for.
And another big, big nasty lie, is promising better and cheaper healthcare to everyone. Its bad enough to just not deliver on that fake promise. But then to try cut $800 billion in health care subsidies for tax cuts to the wealthy???? That is going to make healthcare better and cheaper? How stupid do you think we are? Downright evil movie villain kind of ****. Already seeing angry and resentment all across the board on that.
Say what you will about liberals, but at least they are generally trying to make things better.
Of course minorities are discriminated against. You agree that they are discriminated against, its just the reasoning why and what to do about it that people argue about. I believe in justice for all, I don't care what ticked off a cop killer or how unjustly he feels blacks have been treated, he should be prosecuted for murder, duh. Really strange to me that the right objects so much to the reverse. I don't care how many bad experiences a cop has with minorities or "thugs" or whatever you want to say, if he murders someone or commits manslaughter then he should be held accountable. Seems pretty simple, but somehow its become a huge controversy. A little bit of justice might help reduce that resentment and anger you were talking about, don't you think?
Last edited by Pwn_Master; 06-03-2017 at 01:05 AM.