to use a harder one: I agree co-workers dating has a lot of potential complications, and power differentials make it worse. But the counterfactual isn’t necessarily “everyone gets jobs as good or better, with no negative consequences.”. It’s things like
I have a friend who has provided hundreds of hours of labor towards EA causes, unpaid. The lack of payment isn’t due to lack of value- worse projects in her subfield get funded all the time. But her partner works at a major grantmaker, and she’s not very assertive, and so it never happens.
You can blame this on her being unassertive, but protecting unassertive people is a major point of these rules.
to use a harder one: I agree co-workers dating has a lot of potential complications, and power differentials make it worse. But the counterfactual isn’t necessarily “everyone gets jobs as good or better, with no negative consequences.”. It’s things like
I have a friend who has provided hundreds of hours of labor towards EA causes, unpaid. The lack of payment isn’t due to lack of value- worse projects in her subfield get funded all the time. But her partner works at a major grantmaker, and she’s not very assertive, and so it never happens.
You can blame this on her being unassertive, but protecting unassertive people is a major point of these rules.