Why is it gross? Anybody I help get hired is going to have a great job with good money and wlb.
And I'm not sure what you mean by unwitting in this context. I'm not tricking them into giving away a kidney. All jobs have referral bonuses. Does it somehow become grosser because this is the only job where the bonus has been big enough for me to care?
How do you get someone through a hiring process unwittingly?
"Hey, can I see your resume, I just want to have one to look at?"
"Oh hey, my boss wants to talk to you, and maybe a couple more people too, can you show up at the office all day?"
"Don't worry, it's not a big deal, but can you maybe drive me to and from work every day, and to save gas, maybe you should stay at the office; you better tell your employer you won't be making it in anymore"
"Oh, can I have your bank account info to pay you for gas?"
"Hey, since you're here, can you work on this list of todos?"
"Oh oops, I deposited a salary instead of gas money"
Lagging indicator of previous success. For tech, this currently is Bay Area start-ups (Meta, Google).
The safe route is to invest based on brand name (aka previous success): Bay Area, ex-FAANG, Stanford education, etc. But by definition, you are trying to bet on current and future trends using previous data.
The article is clearly about political and legislative anti-trans machinations though, not TERFs at dinner parties or whatever. In that context it’s the right that is the issue.
This is only tangentially relevant: what should I search for to understand whether “everything” is survivorship bias and whether or not causality “actually exists”?
They are paying even more to manage cash but don’t have a separate fee for it. Why should credit card users subsidize that?
(Personally I think it’s fine to charge any which way you want as long as your terms are clear. But I think this answer makes clear it’s not so obvious as you suggest?)
(If you don’t care, feel free to ignore. That’s grosser though).