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From: csc@watmath.UUCP (Computer Sci Club)
Newsgroups: net.women,can.politics
Subject: Re: paying plumbers
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 15:21:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 15:21:30 1985
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Summary: 


>> 
>> Inherent in "equal pay for work of equal *value*" is that the state
>> (not the people) has to assign a value for each human being.  No thanks.
> 
> Not at all necessary; what is necessary is that the decision be made
> people/persons who can make such a determination independently and
> without prejudice. Also it is possible that  people == state can be
> true you know.

You show me one, just one, person that can make such a determination
"independently and without prejudice".  Such people simply do not
exist.  Any program whose correct functioning depends on their
existence is doomed to failure.  Thus, when there are alternative  
ways of obtaining a goal that do not rely on the existence of such people,
such ways should be pursued.

Incidently, one could consider the supposition of the existence of such
people to be one of the fundamental flaws in communist theory, but that
is a completely different kettle of fish.

>
>> -- 
>> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
>
>John Chapman

	-bob atkinson
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