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Scenario: You come to America from Russia in 1980 to escape the evils of communism with nothing but a suitcase of clothes and $5. You use your talent for mathematics to study accountancy and start up a humble investment bank in which to ply your services to local businesses in the Queens, Harlem and Brooklyn areas. Thanks to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan and your own hard work your business expands significantly. It is now 2007, New York is no longer a crime ridden stankhole and many of the people living in Queens, Harlem and Brooklyn are a lot richer thanks to your contribution to businesses in the area. However your business of 100 employees only employs 18-50 year old muscular hetereosexual highly educated protestant 100% white males. You need a new employee and only 2 candidates show up.

Candidate 1 is a 23 year old muscular hetereosexual highly educated protestant 100% white male who attended harvard business school and has a doctorate in economics.

Candidate 2 is some black guy off the streets who dropped out of high school and is on parole for "riding dirty".

The new employee is vital to your business, you could lose millions and local business in the Queens, Harlem and Brooklyn areas would suffer significantly from the reduction in economic efficiency if you make a bad decision causing a lot of people in these areas to become a lot poorer and unhappy.

Whom do you select?

Always hire the most muscular candidate for a job. That's how I built my banking empire starting as a penniless Russian immigrant 27 years ago, and that's how we're going to keep moving in the future.