Re:Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underreprese...
by jessaustin on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:05PM
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This is reasonable, but now you've given up the game entirely. Oracle and similar firms receive massive benefits from society. First, they are allowed to exist in the first place, which is not obviously a just decision. Also, so many aspects of society are tweaked to make it easier for gigantic inefficient firms to profit consistently. Because of this, Oracle and firms like it owe us something more than merely responding to market conditions. At the very least, not discriminating against employees in illegal ways is part of what they owe.
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Re:Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underreprese...
by Consultant32452 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:50PM
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You guys seem really interested in this topic, so I thought I'd recommend the book The Economics of Discrimination by Becker.
A lot of seemingly intuitive things about wage discrimination fall apart upon closer inspection. It's a really complex problem that in some cases has counter intuitively gotten worse since the Jim Crow days.