From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2008 - 16:18:11 EDT
Equal pay for equal labour does not mean equal pay per hour if there is some objective basis for measuring the comparative performance of people doing the same task. In principle payment according to labour is compatible with piece rates if the work is such that these are meaningful. If piece rates are not meaningful, objections to equal hourly pay comes down to professional and sexual prejudice. Paul Cockshott Dept of Computing Science University of Glasgow +44 141 330 1629 www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/ -----Original Message----- From: ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu on behalf of Ian Wright Sent: Wed 7/2/2008 7:30 PM To: Outline on Political Economy mailing list Subject: Re: [OPE] market socialism >> I don't understand the motivation for wanting to >> pay everyone the same. It makes no sense to me, although I'm open to >> counter-arguments. > > > Hi Ian: > > You don't understand the desire for equality? I understand it well enough, which is why I think workers will in general not want to pay each other an identical wage, since they know in practice that not everyone acts equally. Of course, in a democratic firm the members are free to pay each other an identical wage if they so wish -- by voting for such a distribution. And surely this is better than ... imposing an equal wage? _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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