14 March 2023
Happy Pi Day AND Happy Equal Pay Day, a fitting confluence of events denoting opportunities for arrogant solons to attempt de-legislating reality. History is amusingly replete with examples of Pi (3.14159&c) being redefined (to 22/7, typically, though I’m partial to 355/113 myself) so that it is no longer irrational (and therefore presumably an abomination unto the Lord), forgetting that real engineers and electricians never use pi (or e or phi) anyway, because no one’s paying for all that extra accuracy. Silly Demoblicans and Repucrats also like to try to legislate away the real differences in lifelong choices made by the majorities of men and women that result in their achieving different stations in the market vis a vis productivity and reward. I expect if men also took about a decade off from their career tracks to raise children, AND if women were more inclined to risky (and therefore more handsomely compensated) behavior, there’d probably be no such gap. (Nor such a stark difference in on-the-job mortality between the sexes.) This fantastical 73% or 79% comparison is evidence of the adage, “Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure.”