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Different pay for the same work. “Meritocracy” in action. Since humans had to intuit quantities (food, etc), time (seasons), before formal language in order t

Different pay for the same work. “Meritocracy” in action. Since humans had to intuit quantities (food, etc), time (seasons), before formal language in order to survive, I’m pretty convinced logic and reason are our stronger innate abilities. That human romantic languages are a cognitive burden forced on the masses by conquerors of old. I don’t see it as bad to bin ideas originally conjured by lesser educated dead people.

koolba 5y ago
If the cost of living in different locales can vary, is it that unreasonable to pay the same job function differently? The same janitorial, wait staff, and gas station attendant work in different locales pays based upon the local prevailing wage. Why not the same for a guy sitting in front of a computer?
- chmsky00 5y ago
  Why should a worker accept a smaller cut for a feature the whole team contributed to? Did they write less code or contribute less bug fixes? Is the pay based upon output or businesses ability to manufacture consent in workers? Americans are battered spouses who would be wise to force austerity on CEOs rather than the other way around. Indeed, look at the wins teacher strikes and workers sitting at home right now, have on wages and competition. They need workers (when humans believed in religion as our social temple they were called “flocks”). We’re filling in the area of a perimeter originally defined by Bible thumpers and dead men of a classist perspective. Workers build the world. Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed uses a forced importation metaphor, of high minded aristocratic/imperialist expectations on locals. It’s one of my favorites to point folks at.
  - RC_ITR 5y ago
    > Why should a worker accept a smaller cut for a feature the whole team contributed to? It’s simple. They don’t have to, but then when someone in Bali will do the same work for less, why wouldn’t the company mix shift that way over time?
    - chmsky00 5y ago
      And the people left behind won’t need to eat or have shelter? How will that bank enforce ownership from across the country if they take away the economy? We’re basically setting aside biology for biblical trade rules foisted on ignorant farmers by aristocrats. Wow humanity is this ignorant of itself. I am mesmerized.
- jachee 5y ago
  > Why not the same for a guy sitting in front of a computer? Because, you’re not competing for the talent pool of Podunk, KY, you’re competing for the entire globally-connected internet-capable talent pool. And if you’re not willing to pay equal talent what they’re worth regardless of their location, someone else is.

koolba 5y ago

If the cost of living in different locales can vary, is it that unreasonable to pay the same job function differently? The same janitorial, wait staff, and gas station attendant work in different locales pays based upon the local prevailing wage. Why not the same for a guy sitting in front of a computer?

chmsky00 5y ago
Why should a worker accept a smaller cut for a feature the whole team contributed to? Did they write less code or contribute less bug fixes? Is the pay based upon output or businesses ability to manufacture consent in workers? Americans are battered spouses who would be wise to force austerity on CEOs rather than the other way around. Indeed, look at the wins teacher strikes and workers sitting at home right now, have on wages and competition. They need workers (when humans believed in religion as our social temple they were called “flocks”). We’re filling in the area of a perimeter originally defined by Bible thumpers and dead men of a classist perspective. Workers build the world. Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed uses a forced importation metaphor, of high minded aristocratic/imperialist expectations on locals. It’s one of my favorites to point folks at.
- RC_ITR 5y ago
  > Why should a worker accept a smaller cut for a feature the whole team contributed to? It’s simple. They don’t have to, but then when someone in Bali will do the same work for less, why wouldn’t the company mix shift that way over time?
  - chmsky00 5y ago
    And the people left behind won’t need to eat or have shelter? How will that bank enforce ownership from across the country if they take away the economy? We’re basically setting aside biology for biblical trade rules foisted on ignorant farmers by aristocrats. Wow humanity is this ignorant of itself. I am mesmerized.
jachee 5y ago
> Why not the same for a guy sitting in front of a computer? Because, you’re not competing for the talent pool of Podunk, KY, you’re competing for the entire globally-connected internet-capable talent pool. And if you’re not willing to pay equal talent what they’re worth regardless of their location, someone else is.