ext_299122 ([identity profile] montecristo.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2014-04-21 04:16 am (UTC)

As for myself, I am remunerated in a manner that I believe reasonably reflects my productive worth to the company. If I did not feel this way, I would go get a job somewhere else. Every last single woman has the same right to do likewise. That's as good as it gets. That's real equality, Comrade. You are not Santa Claus, to know the secret heart and valuation of every employer and employee in the market and abrogate and modify their individual decisions as you see more fit. You cannot find any objective way to second guess the myriad value judgments made by individuals all over the world every day, no matter how many "experts" you presume will be put on "the problem."

No, instead of going out and starting your own company and hiring women at a rate you believe their individual productivity is worth, at your own risk, and according to your own value judgments, you sit there and fling silly little revenge fantasies at me. So why do you do this? If the so-called discrimination against women is not rationally rooted in economically valid reasoning then economics tells us that you are looking at a sure thing! You should be able to make an absolute fortune in the market, hiring women at a few cents on the dollar more than the "average market discrimination pays them," and getting productivity at least equal to the "overpaid" males. Go for it! If you're right, it's easy money for you. Do you lack the courage of your convictions? This is your idea of solving "the problem," picking on people who are telling you a truth you don't want to hear?

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