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racial gaps in wealth (i.e., total net worth) have only increased in recent decades.

Adding insult to injury, we’re professionally trained and rewarded to make White people the default referent group that Blacks are measured against. In doing so, we acquire a tendency to center White people in our work.

If differential enforcement emboldens the overlooked group more than it deters the scrutinized group, it may only make the problem worse.

Of the greatest importance, however, is that since Social Justice has taken such pains to establish absolute hegemony over the discourses relevant to these issues—especially on the left and in the center—other reasonable and moderate voices are the least likely to enter the conversation with reasonable and moderate alternatives to Social Justice’s

The fat tails argument: The more a system is capable of delivering large deviations, the worse

For instance, people from more socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are twice as likely as those from advantaged backgrounds to face serious illness and premature death.40 Among middle-class office workers, those occupying a lower rank in the organizational hierarchy face more disease and earlier death than do higher ranking staff.41 Poverty

Flyvbjerg’s analyses are intended to guide the authorities that commission public projects, by providing the statistics of overruns in similar projects. Decision makers need a realistic assessment of the costs and benefits of a proposal before making the final decision to approve it. They may also wish to estimate the budget reserve that they need

Most other measures of diversity depend on the fraction of individuals in each type,