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Re:Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Wome... by solotronics on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:23AM (#15254848)
why isn't everyone paid exactly the same? because that would suck for all of us here and be great for everyone that doesn't work as hard. I was messing with strange *nix distros for years and teaching myself programming before I got a tech job. I would be seriously pissed if someone that didn't know as much got my same job and pay just because they were a _____
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Re:Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Wome... by bandrami on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:38AM (#15258016)
I could understand getting mad if your pay was lowered, but how are you harmed if the other person's pay is increased?

We make all sorts of incredibly bizarre (from an outside perspective) decisions about who gets paid what; the fact that we've fooled ourselves into thinking that it's because of supply and demand curves may be comforting but is completely unfounded in any data.

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Re:Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Wome... by RepressedEmu on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:43PM (#15259599)
Where does all this "equalizing" money come from? Does it just pop into existence because you want it to?
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Re:Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Wome... by bandrami on Friday September 15, 2017 @04:01PM (#15260292)
Yes, in fact, for some value of "you"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

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Re:Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Wome... by RepressedEmu on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:55AM (#15339770)
You can't create the amount of money you are talking about without severe economic consequences. That should be obvious.
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