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Everybody gets paid the same, without any consideration to their productivity, or the level and scarcity of their skills. Congratulations, you’ve invented comm
by lulmerchant 9y ago
Everybody gets paid the same, without any consideration to their productivity, or the level and scarcity of their skills.
Congratulations, you’ve invented communism.
- dozzie 9y agoYour comment is close to being right (or maybe is right), but this was not the point of the parent poster.
- lulmerchant 9y agoThe poster was asserting that market forces don’t determine remuneration according to their satisfaction, and that instead people should be remunerated according to what the poster thinks they deserve. How is criticising this as communism not valid?
- dozzie 9y ago> The poster was asserting that market forces don’t determine remuneration according to their satisfaction, and that instead people should be remunerated according to what the poster thinks they deserve. No. lobotryas was saying that we're only discussing shortage of women writing software because it's a well-paying office job. If anything else was kept intact, but either the job was low wage or other jobs that women currently choose much more often were paid as highly, we wouldn't have the discussion about too little women writing software. > How is criticising this as communism not valid? Because it was not the lobotryas' point.
- lobotryas 9y agoYou are reading much too deeply into my comment and thereby missing the point entirely. Dozzie's reply covers my intended point very well. Mine was not a post saying "things should be a certain way" or even "our society's values are misaligned". No, I just observed that if we want a certain standard of living in a certain location then the path for us is all but predetermined and that this is a bummer.
- dang 9y agoPlease respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lulmerchant 9y agoMarket forces decide what people get paid. The poster I replied to is suggesting that instead people should just do what ever jobs they enjoy, and should be paid some amorphous idea of what they ‘deserve’. That’s exactly what communism is.
- dang 9y agoGeneric ideological tangents are off topic on HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=generic%20ideological&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=generic%20ideological&sort=byD...
- lulmerchant 9y agoI’ve made an entirely valid and civil criticism of another posters utopian musings, and all you’re interested in is trying to figure out how you could twist it into being against the rules. Why don’t you contribute something to the conversation instead?
- tmnvix 9y ago> Why don’t you contribute something to the conversation instead? It seems that you might be unaware that the user 'dang' is a moderator.
- lulmerchant 9y agoI know who Daniel is. We’re all free to disagree with the moderators, you know?
- abvdasker 9y agoCongratulations, you don't know what communism is.
- dang 9y agoPlease don't reply to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. This one breaks at least three. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html