REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (08/05/84)
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>
Date: 19 Jul 84 12:37:26-PDT (Thu)
From: ihnp4!houxm!houxh!waynez @ Ucb-Vax.arpa
What about COLOR BLIND engineers ???
If you have a handicap of any kind, you can't do some things that most
people can do. That's a fact of life.
A good strategy is this: You make technology on the large allow the
vast majority to increase their productivity, and you tax them a
little to pay for special services for those who are handicapped, so
everybody wins. So for example a color-blind engineer can't use the
fancy color engineering software, but has to use b&w software instead,
thus is less productive than fellow-workers (but not less productive
than if color software didn't exist at all), but the company still
keeps the person employed because the government pays the handicappd
person the difference between what non-handicapped employees are worth
(and getting paid) and what this handicapped employee is worth (and
getting paid). -- Sigh, it's not that way currently, but it could be.
<Political opinion and wish of REM>