True. Not all discrepancies between percentages in the general population and percentages in a particular line of work can be explained by discrimination. Consider the NBA.
You’ll note that I said “you could argue”, not “I would argue”. My understanding is that the Golden Age of Piracy was very well organized, in a Hayekian spontaneous order sort of way…which to a certain mentality means utterly disordered.
In the aftermath of Katrina, a TV reporter was bewailing the ‘utter chaos’ of the situation as members of the ‘Cajun Navy’ were calmly and deliberately organizing search and rescue operations. To her, it had to be ‘chaotic’ because nobody from the government was there.
I wouldn’t worry. You could argue that the reason the piracy industry has declined so since its height is that it was so undisciplined, which presents a glorious challenge for someone with superior organizational skills. There is no one better qualified than Sweetheart to put it on a proper disciplined, bureaucratic basis.
Why aren’t parents who throw gender reveal parties prosecuted for child abuse? I mean, who are they to decide what the person’s gender is?