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From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: paying plumbers
Message-ID: <224@fear.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 20:48:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: fear.224
Posted: Fri Jul 19 20:48:12 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 06:20:52 EDT
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Summary: When ignorance is bliss...

In article <2210@watcgl.UUCP>, jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) writes:
> > 
> > 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.
>  
>  Not at all necessary; what is necessary is that the decision be made
>  people/persons who can make such a determination independently and
>  without prejudice. Also it is possible that  people == state can be
>  true you know.
> 
> > -- 
> > Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario
> 
> John Chapman

Sincerity is all very well, I suppose... ****BUT***** ... that a
decision has been made  independently and without prejudice is *NO*
indication that the decision is *RIGHT*!

Take any well-meaning fool and put him in charge of decision-making,
and *YOUR* criteria are fulfilled.

There seem to be only two arguments for wage controls:

1) The cynical version: If *my* group makes the decisions, people
like *ME* will benefit.

2) The romantic/naive version: If wise, benevolent, perfect, godlike
beings make the decisions, we peasants (or perhaps *you* peasants)
will find bliss on Earth.

*BLEEEEEECCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!*

Let's take it all the way, with the "multiply both sides by zero"
approach: If no one has any rights, everyone will have equal rights.
-- 

						"Quid me anxius sum?"
						    -- E. Alfredus Numanus
		Robert Plamondon
		{turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!robert