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Continuity_organizer91 karma

Jess: There’s a difference between a quota and someone getting a position just because they are a particular gender.

That's literally the definition of a quota.

Continuity_organizer31 karma

I want Wikipedia to be more representative of the world of science. The majority of Wikipedia editors are men and, as a result, the majority of biographies on Wikipedia are about men (83 % to be precise).

Honest question, if you were to compile a list of the 10,000 most consequential humans in world history, around how many of them do you think would be women?

Continuity_organizer9 karma

Hello Dr. Caplan, I'm a fan of your work, my question is the following:

How do you reconcile anarcho-capitalism with the fact that successful market outcomes are almost always proceeded by a successful government enforcement of property rights?

In other words, how can markets emerge in the real world absent of a defined power structure?