Equity

VP Harris has said that equality is unfair because people started out at different points some with advantages that others did not have. Her solution is equity where everyone ends up in the same place. Here is her statement. "And if the goal is truly about equality, it has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place". It is often said that a tie game is like kissing your sister. Competition is an integral part of almost every aspect of life. Competition by definition means that there will be winners and losers and this is what happens in a free market economy. Socialism is about everyone getting a participation trophy. The current craze is diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). A society can grow and prosper with diversity and inclusion but equity has no place in a free market economic system. The danger is when diversity and inclusion replace merit with some other measurement. The best qualified applicant is by passed for a person of color or gender because of some past real or perceived discrimination. This is called identity politics. It is a new form of nepotism It is easy to justify such activity when it is a general situation but when it involves a personal case with someone you know then things look a lot different. There can be no Olympics with equity.