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Social class, attractiveness, intelligence, charisma, mental health, physical health, luck, etc. all play a big role in your success in life but we don't try to equalize those at all.

Race and gender are probably just really easy to quantify vs "we have a program to make sure we hire people who are dumb, ugly and socially awkward".



Not even joking, we should have affirmative action for ugly people. Everything they have they had to work twice as hard as attractive people for.




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