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The wage boost from weight loss was never about productivity. A new NBER study on GLP-1 drugs reveals that the ‘skinny premium’ was actually a stigma tax on people society judged as morally defective. As weight loss becomes medical rather than moral, the economic advantage of thinness may erode — exposing the discrimination that was there all along.
The alleged rigging of a high school contest against a Sikh finalist isn’t just about cheating—it’s a case study in how institutional discrimination operates through mundane bureaucratic decisions. When a single phone call can undo a student’s achievement, it reveals the quiet machinery of exclusion that defines who belongs in American public life. This isn’t an anomaly; it’s the system working as designed.
The EEOC’s decision to end 60 years of demographic data collection doesn’t just roll back DEI — it destroys the statistical evidence needed to prove discrimination in court. The twist? Anti-DEI advocates are shooting themselves in the foot, because without demographic data, nobody can prove bias in either direction. Colorblind policy doesn’t end racism. It just makes it impossible to hold anyone accountable.