Ep. 817 Death by HR: How Affirmative Action Cripples Organizations

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Human Resources departments have for practical purposes become wings of the federal regime. Instead of seeking out the best employees who also happen to fit the company's internal culture, HR departments have adopted a social work philosophy aimed at boosting particular kinds of candidates. Jeb Kinnison discusses how this came to be in his new book, Death by HR.

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0:26.9	course.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here, talking to Jeb Kinnison, who is author of an interesting
0:33.8	new book called Death by H.R. How Affirmative Action Action Criples Organizations. Now, I know I've
0:40.6	got maybe 17 to 20 percent of my listeners being out of the United States, so just in case
0:47.4	HR isn't something you know, or I don't know if this is a common thing in other countries, or if you
0:52.9	would know the translation, whatever,
0:54.5	but HR just stands for Human Resources Department. So it oversees employment and
0:59.7	complying with labor law and administering benefits and hiring and dismissal and things like that.
1:09.2	And Jeb has written a very interesting and cutting, incisive book
1:13.6	about what's really going on in HR departments and companies across the country.
1:18.5	Jeb Kinnison is a computer programmer and software engineer. He studied astronomy and computer
1:24.0	and cognitive science at MIT. He's written several books, a couple on relationships,
1:30.9	others in the science fiction genre, and now Death by HR, a very interesting book. Indeed.
1:37.5	Jeb Kinnison, welcome to the show. Thank you, Tom. That is such a great title, Death by H.R.
1:43.0	How could you not love that?
1:45.5	That's beautiful, beautiful.
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