What would happen to them in a free society?

An un-countable number of organizations fight the State every day to gain rights, funds or protection. These organizations are as diverse as they are many, and each of them has an agenda that must be sold to the politicians, for example those fighting for gay-rights, labor protection, gender equality, farm subsidies, abolishment of racial discrimination and so on and so forth. But what would happen to these organizations in a free society? The answer is short: They would shrink or disappear completely.

This is not a hard riddle to solve. The free society cares for one thing and one thing only: The freedom to use ones own body and property as ones sees fit. This will usually translate into a search for an increase in ones own physical well-being and/or an increase in ones property and material wealth. Companies want growth and higher profits, and if that means hiring a black or homosexual man, a man in a wheel-cheer or a man with a vagina then so be it, as long as the hired individual is a profitable employee.

The scenery today is somewhat different from that of a free society. A number of laws offer protection and privileges to certain groups relative to others. If a female employee becomes pregnant, she will drop out of work for several months but still receive pay. If a black man is hired and then fired, the company could face expensive law-suits and other expenses as a result. If a homosexual individual gets a job and finds out he didn't do as good in the salary-discussion as the next non-homosexual man, he will file a lawsuit and claim damages without much effort. The whole spectrum of "anti-discrimination" laws and "equal pay for same job-titles" propaganda has shifted the focus away from the individuals in question and towards some vague definitions of minority groups that have homogeneous individuals among them, apparently with the same needs, desires and talent.

The fact of the matter is that discrimination takes place, but in nature not on the basis of gender, race or number of legs. Discrimination takes place whenever two compete for something. The one who gets the job will usually be the one who can convince his would-be employer that he is the one for the job because of skills, talent, education or ability to work overtime and during weekends. If a statistic shows that one group, on the average, receives higher pay than another, it should not be taken as a reason to make new laws. It should encourage those who think they are under-paid to convince their employer of exactly that, and that is all.

Special-interest organizations in a free society would find better things to do with their time than sue the State and demand laws that apply for all individuals, regardless of individual preferences, talent, wants and needs.