Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!regard From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: paying plumbers Message-ID: <533@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 17:15:38 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcc.533 Posted: Wed Jul 10 17:15:38 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 06:58:10 EDT Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 16 >Brad Templeton >"black female plumbers are paid as much as white male plumbers", it is >also a very important social goal that superior plumbers are paid >more than inferior plumbers. >The same is true for all jobs. If you interfere with the above process, >you can easily destroy most of the incentives in society. >No bureaucrat in Ottawa >has the right or competence to tell me what I'm worth. Or anybody else >for that matter. NOW I'm confused. If it is a process in society to affix some measure of superior and inferior (as well as other measures), and that is a process that you are interested in maintaining, how can you then say nobody has the right or competence to tell you what you're worth? Who, in your personal case, stands in for "society"?