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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: paying plumbers
Message-ID: <302@looking.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 14 00:00:00 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 07:01:05 EDT
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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Summary: 

I said, "no bureaucrat has the right to tell me what I'm worth, or anybody
else for that matter" and this was questioned, somewhat rightly, since
I guess I didn't give proper context.

What I meant was that nobody has the right to dictate from above the
value of my services.   The price put on my services should depend only
on myself and those who do the purchasing.  For the wage police to come
in and say "plumbers are worth $x, systems programmers $y, and janitors
$z" is what we should all fear.

To suggest that the value of a human being's work is based on some tables
in the government is demeaning.  It reduces us to cogs.  Deciding value
is (* surprise *) a value judgement, and it should be subjective.

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