Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!csc From: csc@watmath.UUCP (Computer Sci Club) Newsgroups: net.women,can.politics Subject: Re: paying plumbers Message-ID: <15753@watmath.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 15:21:30 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15753 Posted: Mon Jul 15 15:21:30 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 03:14:28 EDT References: <533@ttidcc.UUCP> <302@looking.UUCP> <2210@watcgl.UUCP> Reply-To: csc@watmath.UUCP (Computer Sci Club) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.women:6399 can.politics:666 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 watmath!csc