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From: scarter@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (Stephen M. Carter)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Research in Reliable Distributed Computing
Message-ID: <129@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 23:37:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 23:37:57 1985
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In article <539@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
>> The salary algorithm works as follows: if A > B, (where '>' means older) and
>> A and B are doing similar jobs and have similar educational qualificatios,
>> then A is likely to be earning a bit more than B.  (There can be exceptions
>> to this, but that is how roughly the system works).  Less competetive is'nt
>> it? Whether it is descriminatory or not is a matter of what political views
>> you have, but I do'nt think we should argue it here.
>
Now I am really confused.  Would not such an algorithm such as this actually
discriminate against the people (older group) that you are trying to help?
It is all well in good if everyone has unlimited budgets and really believes
in that sort of thing, but money is money and some people (and companies)
try to save it.  Given two people, one old, one young and limited funds would
want me to hire the younger one....  
Again, given that the whole social group (young and old) supports giving older
people more money and it really works, it is kind of a nice idea.  Who are we
(the U.S.) to say that is wrong...  I am 25, so I'll just stay here a few
more years....

SCarter


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