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From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: paying plumbers
Message-ID: <238@fear.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 19:41:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 19:41:41 1985
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Summary: Just another cog in the old machine...

In article <2242@watcgl.UUCP>, jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) writes:
>  To those who say (listen up Brad) it would be degrading to people
>  in general to have their wages decided by some independant (and
>  probably necessarily at least quasi-governmental).  How can it
>  possibly be more degrading to have someone(s) making the decision
>  who has nothing to gain or lose by the decision when you compare
>  it to having the decision made by someone whose primary objective
>  is to make as much money as possible which necessitates paying
>  you as little as possible?
> 	John Chapman
> 	...!watmath!watcgl!jchapman

Yeah, I know. I've read Marx, too.  The problem is that I have
trouble making myself feel like a peasant when I've been able to find
employers who were more desperate to hire me than I was to work for
them. Nor is this particularly rare.

The idea of taking away the power of setting salary from people I see
every day and giving it to the government is absurd.  Maybe things
are different in Canada (though I doubt it), but it's very difficult
to distract Congresspeople from their business of buggering page boys
and accepting bribes to get any decent legislation passed.

Anyway, the whole point of centralizing power, as I see it, is to
make policy inescapable.  If my employer does something I don't like,
I only have to find another employer.  If the goverment does
something I don't like, I have to find another *COUNTRY*.

Imposing all of this statist garbage for the sole purpose of wage
equality for women seems extreme, especially given the continuing
improvements, the number of non-sexist employers and employers who
are women, and all.  Besides, a change in political climate could
cause the controls to be abused.

Why are you so eager to put the power of law behind your opinions?
Are you so wise, so benevolent, that it's a good idea to sweep away
all the diversity in the world and replace it with *YOUR* dictates?

-- 

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