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From: hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Equal pay for comparable worth
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 14:38:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 14:38:20 1985
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The law of supply and demand could only work in the job marketplace
if everyone could do any job.
All those low paid nurses, who were advised by a previous contributor
to quit their jobs to increase the demand, could then immediately
start work as software engineers! This is obviously absurd.
Most people in low-paying jobs have the alternative of starving.
While in the long run that might cause the law of supply and
demand to work, this may not be acceptable to the nurses in question.

Herman Silbiger