Offering anybody a job doesn't hurt that person.
Compared with not offering them a job, that's obviously true. But why should that be the point of comparison?
Suppose you apply for a job. You are well qualified for it; you would do it well; you perform well at interview; you are very keen to do the job; you would get on well with everyone else on the team; no one else better on any of those metrics applies. And your prospective employer offers you the job -- at half the salary you'd normally expect to get. It turns out that a wave of misdirected anti-religious prejudice has led everyone in your country to offer half the salary to people called "Christian" that they'd have offered to anyone else.
When your prospective employer offers you that job, at half what would be the going rate for anyone else -- have they hurt you? Are you the victim of any injustice here?
I say they have, and you are, and the fact that they could have done even worse by simply refusing to give you a job is neither here nor there.
When your prospective employer offers you that job, at half what would be the going rate for anyone else -- have they hurt you?
Discriminating against people because you don't like their given name isn't a offense that's legally banned nor should it.
If someone misleads me to think that I will be payed a certain salary at a certain job and I invest resources into applying for that job, that's injustice but I don't think that's the case here.
If I want to buy a mattress at a store and they owner wants 400$ for it, I don't do the owner any injustice for of...
LW readers have unusual views on many subjects. Efficient Market Hypothesis notwithstanding, many of these are probably alien to most people in finance. So it's plausible they might have implications that are not yet fully integrated into current asset prices. And if you rightfully believe something that most people do not believe, you should be able to make money off that.
Here's an example for a different group. Feminists believe that women are paid less than men for no good economic reason. If this is the case, feminists should invest in companies that hire many women, and short those which hire few women, to take advantage of the cheaper labour costs. And I can think of examples for groups like Socialists, Neoreactionaries, etc. - cases where their positive beliefs have strong implications for economic predictions. But I struggle to think of such ones for LessWrong, which is why I am asking you. Can you think of any unusual LW-type beliefs that have strong economic implications (say over the next 1-3 years)?
Wei Dai has previously commented on a similar phenomena, but I'm interested in a wider class of phenomena.