The future of anti-discrimination lawsuits ....

No doubt, the US has one of the most litigious societies in the world. There have not been too many high-profile, dumb lawsuits in the last few weeks, but some of the choice ones from the past ...

• Dude sues McDonalds for making him fat and diseased
• Thief sues owner of house that he breaks into, because he gets hurt by something in there
• And many more here.

Hiring in the US is supposed to done with no importance given to the sex, religion, creed, race, national origin and age of the applicants. This is more or less followed, largely due to the enormous numbers of discrimination lawsuits that have been filed in the past. Companies and Universities have set up informal affirmative action practices in the fear of being sued.

This has the risk of leading to the forced hiring of sub-standard talent to meet an artificial criteria whose overall economic and social impact can be disputed.

In the future, I am waiting for a person to go to court and file a lawsuit saying "I am dumb, I am not intelligent and that is the reason I was not offered this job - I allege discrimination against the unintelligent by Company X"

And then, every company will have to hire a certain number of morons to avoid being sued !