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Episode 106: Can Anti-Discrimination Laws Get Us Closer to a Meritocracy?

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The Future of Affirmative Action

If I'm looking to cast an actor in the lead role, I would be deliberately discriminating against non-whites. How does that square with the law? So if you have a legitimate business reason that works, that's going to fly. When I stop finding cases where women are paid less for equal work than their simply situated comparators, that's when I'd stop bringing gender discrimination cases.

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