I came across this article in the National Review that discusses slavery as bad for the economy and how removing it launched a 10-20% boom for the U.S. economy. Slavery Was Bad for the Economy In today's world most people look back on slavery and find that is was a horrendous act of false justifications for highly immoral and bankrupt ideology supported by corrupted souls.
One could possibly further that argument because while slavery and official segregation has ended there are still segregationists still at work potentially restricting our economy from its full potential. History will likely look upon them as corrupted souls as well who misuse personal and ideological justifications to create social tiers of citizenship that holds the entire nation back.
A reasonable argument might be that if we seek to maximize our human capital we have to do our best to ensure that all demographics are seen with equal rights and encourage them all to engage in as broad application of democracy and capitalism as possible. It is likely to occur within our lifetimes as a highly diverse generation begins to take leadership positions and push for greater national growth.
The young generation has the right values and skills and want to compete so we should remove the road blocks.
The merit system with the understanding of the inequalities of life can ensure that those with skills are moving up the economic ladder and are not being dissuaded from full economic participation. The nation gets the best and brightest versus the most connected. Highly functional systems seek to maximize performance for the societal whole.
Understanding poverty, discrimination, institutional reform, etc. are part of the process of ensuing people engage fully in social and economic life as possible. We should seek to truly reduce group think and develop access and avenues to full large scale national growth. New ideas bring innovation and adaptability (theoretically).
There are likely lots of people who disagree with that but it is a conversation; not a one sided one. I personally always ere on the side of fair and just treatment of everyone without an differentiations based on superficial characteristics that are not reflective of a persons soul, skills, and potentials. Segregationists in society, even when supported by groups, may be limiting our full national potential.
What would the next potential boom look like if we fully universalized at a time when technology is coming online that creates whole economic platforms? What do you think? What leads to the highest competitive nation? Some of us love ideology and some of us love building great futures. What do you like and would like to see for our nation?
A Chapter on the Economies of Discrimination
*This article is designed to get you to think and is not definitive.
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