Common sense dictate that fair means equal pay for equal result. That kind of fairness happen naturally under free market mechanism. Essence of racism are then more pay based on race.
For example, if the race is white, racism means more pay just because a person is white.
Now I have nothing against white people. I admire many of them. I think people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Warren Buffet deserves every penny they earn and even more. Yes they get paid more, but they bring bigger result, so they deserve it.
However many white guys are not like them. Many, too many, believe that somehow they deserve higher pay simply because they’re white.
Many bitch about jobs moving to China for example. Well, wait a minute. Equal pay for equal result. If those chinese workers are willing and capable to give better result at less costs, why should the job goes to white? To even think of it is racist.
There are 2 issues here.
1. Is all racism dangerous?
2. Is the issue is truly racism?
Not all racism is equally dangerous of course. I can’t prevent people to think as they please. Even if a KKK member put a big sign saying no chinese are allowed, I would be grateful because at least I know who I shouldn’t do biz with.
If some white guy, because of racism, feel confident and actually perform better in free market out of pride of his ancestor, it is actually a good thing. That kind of racism is not dangerous.
But the idea that even though some guy can do better and yet job must have gone to the other guy just because of race is racism. It’s simple.
Is race really is the issue? I dealed with many people in my life as businessmen. The pattern that I often see is that white people are unique. They have this habit of expecting and demanding higher pay simply based on race.
This is obviously not how free market work. If anyone is capable to provide the same result at cheaper price, a profit maximizing businessman will of course hire that guy. So a pattern that I see is that some white guys often make barriers of competition.
In Zimbabwe, for example, during apartheid era, certain jobs are reserved for white only.
But that’s Zimbabwe. The rest are not like that right? Really?
In US, anti immigration laws are there to protect whites from having to compete with hispanics and asians.
But that’s not racism. That’s discrimination based on citizenship. Not race, one may argue. After all, we are responsible to make a fair and prosperous country too and well Asians used to mess up in this era. Okay.
What about competition barrier against cheaper non white yet american citizen? Do we have that? Yes we do.
It’s called minimum wage.
We all know that black people in US, for various reasons, are on the bottom of salary pyramid. But that’s fine. Free market tend to take care of everything. Those who are less capable to be productive can sell themselves cheap first. Overall they build trust, relationship, and experience, and the end becoming rich too.
So how do white guys in US protect themselves from having to compete with cheaper blacks? Minimum wage. Now that’s racist.
I am not a socialist. However, if you want to be socialist anyway, there are many ways to do so with less market distortion and less racism. Milton Friedman, for example, propose minimum/negative income tax, for example.
Why I am writing this?
I do not see racism as something that’s always dangerous because free market will cure all social ills anyway. Globalization tend to defang racism. It’s still there but it’s no longer dangerous. Thanks to globalization every one will be rewarded based on their individual merit.
Globalization to all kind of unfairness, like racism, is like Israel for jews. Anti semitism is still there, but now jews can simply emigrate to Israel. Hence, anti semitism is no longer dangerous.
As a non racist people I am open to doing biz with anyone under any race. Obviously, I can’t pay people more simply because somebody is white. I am not racist. I don’t complain if some guy is racist. However, chance is he can’t do biz with me. At least not under honest terms.
Typical white guy that I deal with seems to convey that somehow they deserve more. On the other hand, they also know that I simply won’t do biz with them if they insisted on getting more. I can’t pay them more as long as there are still plenty of Asians willing to do the same thing for cheaper price.
So what some of them did is to simply scam me. They tried to renegotiate the term after the deal and the whole work done, and when I refused they simply ran away. In return, I simply destroyed their life. Out of 6 I dealed with, only 1 paid as agreed without making excuses like taxes, high living costs, office expense, etc.
Guess what, a lot of white guys think I should have just move on. That’s racism. Why should I move on against somebody that scammed me? Because I am not white?
I kept pondering and asking why the scam rate is so high when I am dealing with whites as opposed to fellow asians. Then they accused me of racism for thinking that white guys tend to be like this.
Oh boy… racist….