{"id":1021,"date":"2025-12-03T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:25:47","slug":"the-failure-of-diversity-and-the-temptation-to-meddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"The Failure of &#8220;Diversity&#8221; and the Temptation to Meddle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Ffailure-diversity-temptation-meddle%3A0?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheArchCast\">Arch<\/a> is kind of fun to listen to sometimes. I don&#8217;t play a lot of tabletop games, so I learn quite a bit about sorry state of the industry from him. Even his takes on other topics are usually pretty even-handed and intelligent. He also scores really low on the authoritarianism scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y0e_TRFLAT0\">This recent video<\/a> from him was really good up until the end: he talks about the problems caused by &#8220;diversity&#8221; policy, but his conclusion is that more &#8220;regulation&#8221; is needed, rather than scrapping the policy and stopping State meddling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">So I thought I&#8217;d talk a bit about the economic reasons why getting rid of requirements and barriers to entry is better, even from Arch&#8217;s perspective, than banning companies from choosing to waste time on discriminatory programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Full show notes <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/diversity-failure-and-temptation.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/failure-diversity-temptation-meddle:0\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Zx-5zoS8Ik8\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/update_video\/vdboJnDJvQ8V\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arch is kind of fun to listen to sometimes. I don&#8217;t play a lot of tabletop games, so I learn quite a bit about sorry state of the industry from him. Even his takes on other topics are usually pretty even-handed and intelligent. He also scores really low on the authoritarianism scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[286,37,59,86,60,19,72,127],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-political","category-video-link","tag-diversity","tag-economics","tag-free-market","tag-freedom","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-politics","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/forced-diversity-temptation.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}