“Everyone worries about declining social mobility, rising inequality and the hideous homogeneity of politicians, **yet it is possible these have arisen from well-meaning attempts to make the world fairer**. The quandary is that you can either create a fairer, more equitable society, with opportunities for all but where luck plays a significant role, or you can create a society **which maintains the illusion of complete and non-random fairness, yet where opportunities are open to only a few** – the problem is that **when ‘the rules are the same for everyone’ the same boring bastards win every time**. The idea that you should therefore try making your recruitment system less fair outrages people when I suggest it, but it is worth remembering that **there is an inevitable trade-off between fairness and variety**. **By applying identical criteria to everyone in the name of fairness, you end up recruiting identical people**.” --- **Tags** -- [[templates]], [[quotes]], [[recruitment]] , [[diversity]] , [[systems-thinking]] , [[psycho-logic]] , [[alchemy]] , **Source** -- [[202407221554 - B - Alchemy]]