what\u2019s the margin of civilization<\/a>?<\/p>\nLook, pretty much any organization can carry one freeloader.\u00a0 Usually, it\u2019s the boss\u2019s nephew.\u00a0 Certain union shops and government offices seem to have more of them because productivity isn\u2019t tied to profit.<\/p>\n
But at some point, if all you hire are Pajama Boys and Diversity Coordinators, who\u2019s doing the welding? Who\u2019s going to climb the power pole during the thunderstorm to reconnect the cables?\u00a0 Who\u2019s going down in the manhole \u2013 ooops, sorry, person hole \u2013 to shovel the clogged sewage?\u00a0 Who\u2019s the roughneck throwing the chain around the drill pipe when you\u2019re coming out of the hole in the Badlands of North Dakota?\u00a0 Who\u2019s the cop wading into the bar fight?\u00a0 Who\u2019s the firefighter climbing down the ladder with my fat a** slung over the shoulder?<\/p>\n
Diversity is a fact, not a goal.\u00a0 At least, not for long. \u00a0After the collapse of civilization, it will be a curse word.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As Glenn Reynolds says, things that can’t be sustained, won’t be.\u00a0 Probably holds true for people, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Sarah Hoyt asks the right question: what\u2019s the margin of civilization? Look, pretty much any organization can carry one freeloader.\u00a0 Usually, it\u2019s the boss\u2019s nephew.\u00a0 Certain union shops and government offices seem to have more of them because productivity isn\u2019t tied to profit. But at some point, if all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67317,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67315\/revisions\/67317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}