Comments by "Christos P" (@JohnCarterIsMyName) on "Dr. Fauci Reacts to Adoring Fans & Thomas Sowell Destroys Experts | Direct Message | Rubin Report" video.

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  9.  @NullParadigm  ... Sowell gets paid by rich white conservatives to write poorly supported ideas that attack the governmental contributions liberals have instituted so blacks can participate in American society as equals. Sowell believes that America has a free-market economy that by its very nature is antiracist and antisexist. Competitive market pressures compel economically rational employers to select the most productive employees at the cheapest wage. Economically rational employers as a class do not discriminate on the basis of color or sex unless they are compelled to do so by laws protecting some ethnic groups at the expense of others. "To say that women receive only 59 percent of what men receive for doing the same work is to say that employers pay men 70 percent more than they have to, to get a given job done." Since this overpayment for workers of comparable skill might mean the difference between bankruptcy and soaring profits, economic pressures compel employers to hire the cheaper workers. Sowell maintains that these inherent competitive pressures are such that no group would be systematically underpaid. Hence, if men as a class have higher incomes and occupational status than women as a class, men must be more productive workers and therefore more valuable in the marketplace. Sowell is fully aware that America's free market economy existed during eras of intense job discrimination against minorities and women. He blames this historical racism and sexism in the marketplace largely on government intervention. "Even racism in South Africa has not stopped the hiring of blacks over whites under such conditions - which is why massive political intervention in the economy has been necessary to preserve 'White Supremacy' there." Similarly, "sweeping Jim Crow laws were used in the South to keep blacks 'in their place' precisely because of the futility of trying to do so in a competitive economy." This is, of course, not history at all, but a neoconservative fairy tale. Sowell let his intellectual abilities get corrupted by politics.
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