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by yummyfajitas
4544 days ago
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...so getting women into tech would help reduce income inequality... This is incorrect - assuming these women don't displace men, inequality will go up. Say a woman (or man) moves from a $50k/year office job to a $120k/year tech job. Income inequality will go up. Gini will go up and the "size of the middle class" (typically defined as % of the population between 50% and 150% of the median) will shrink. Simple example: consider a world of 10 people with income of 50k. Gini is zero. Now double the income of one of them. Gini has gone up to 0.08, and size of the middle class has gone from 100% to 90%. So given that you have the stated goal of reducing income inequality, and your proposed policy would actually increase inequality, do you now oppose bringing women into computing? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/09/07/eliezer-yudkowsky/tru... |
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