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malthaussen

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1. To be sure, the right place to post this.

Reply to rrneck (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 01:48 PM

Feb 2014

There is a problem with your thesis. Pay equality is not generally about "sucking stink." Pay equality is about equal compensation for work requiring some degree of professional competence, training, and certification.

There is another problem with your thesis. Put it this way: a popular anti-socialist meme runs that "socialism is just a means of spreading misery equally to all." Let us grant, per arguendo, that this is so. Then it must follow that capitalism is a means of spreading misery unequally to all.

-- Ml

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The gender wage gap controversy reminds me of an old joke... [View all] rrneck Feb 2014 OP

To be sure, the right place to post this. malthaussen Feb 2014 #1

Hey, stink sucking takes a lot of training. I keed, I keed... rrneck Feb 2014 #2

Then except for a handful at the top... malthaussen Feb 2014 #3

Capitulation is not a solution. rrneck Feb 2014 #4

But my question is, who is treating whom as an adversary? malthaussen Feb 2014 #5

It doesn't matter who started the fight. rrneck Feb 2014 #7

Time out. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2014 #6

And rrneck Feb 2014 #8

And by the way rrneck Feb 2014 #9

Pay equality is about comparing apples to apples Major Nikon Feb 2014 #10