Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad 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 Article-I.D.: looking.302 Posted: Sun Jul 14 00:00:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 07:01:05 EDT References: <533@ttidcc.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 18 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