Izeinwinter comments on Link: quotas-microaggression-and-meritocracy - Less Wrong
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Because an unspoken condition of employment that prospective employees must stay single is a management technique made of win.
Errh.. Not. Good lord. would you want to manage a team made up of 100% celibate men? This is not a weakspot in the law, because it's not a runaround anyone sane enough to not already be bankrupt would attempt.
It might on the margin inspire people to hire more people in their forties and fifties, - people who have had any children they are likely to have, but from the point of view of the government, that's also not a flaw, but more of a "Secondary benefit free with just legislation".
They make awesome startups. Redirected sexual energy is powerful :-)
Erm ... there's this guy in Rome who tried that ... I think they had some problems.
Well the institution in question is the oldest continuously operating institution around today so they certainly have something going for them.