Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: net.women,can.politics Subject: Re: paying plumbers Message-ID: <2210@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 14:00:22 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2210 Posted: Mon Jul 15 14:00:22 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 03:11:21 EDT References: <533@ttidcc.UUCP> <302@looking.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 31 Xref: watmath net.women:6398 can.politics:664 . . . > 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. I know some clerical staff who would *love* to be demeaned by having an independant authority decide how much they should be paid in general; their pay/conditions could not get much worse than they are now. I'm surprised you think it less demeaning for the value of a human being's work to be based on random market forces or a hiring criterion based on getting the most for the least. > > 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. > -- > Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473 John Chapman