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A comment on Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men. Parent comment

Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by maxxxxx on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:33PM (#19307642)
What’s the point of this thought experiment?
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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by dgudkov on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:33AM (#19308331)
How can you understand fairness of pay from that information?
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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by maxxxxx on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:43AM (#19308374)
You can’t. It depends on the situation. I am sure the people working there can put it better into context.

I still don’t understand the thought experiment. How about: Car A costs $30000, Car B costs $50000. Which is the better value? Makes as little sense.

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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by dgudkov on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:50AM (#19310841)
Exactly. That's the point. Just pricing information (be it salary or car prices) makes little sense.

Market transparency that you mentioned earlier makes sense only for standardized goods/services. Software jobs are not standardized and many people don't want their colleagues to know how much their earn.

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