Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
by mwcampbell on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:33AM
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This whole thread is side-stepping the point of the original article. As I understand it, the point is this: if we're going to get on a moral high horse about equal pay, then we should also apply that standard to the things we consume. So I'd think that links to ethical consumption guides would be more on point for this thread than further discussion of what _we_ are paid.
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Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
by geoduck14 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:39AM
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Oh, by the way, Starbucks has "fair-trade" coffee, which costs more because the farmers get a decent wage.
And the produce I buy at the grocery store comes from Florida, Texas, and California that hire legal immigrants with an American minimum wage.
Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
by Aeolun on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:03PM
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I’m all for clothes that I want being manufactured for a fair price (e.g. not next best to slave labour)
But it should be just as easy to buy those as others. Right now everything is made China. It’s super hard to find made in [home country] stuff
Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
by jackcosgrove on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:47AM
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I doubt the employer is considering what is moral when they cut your pay. It's all just rhetoric to them.
Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
by mwcampbell on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:49AM
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Sure. And my point is that we who are relatively fortunate should focus on what we're indirectly doing to people less fortunate than us, and what we can do instead. In other words, we shouldn't keep seeing ourselves as victims.
Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
by contravariant on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:31PM
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That would be a good point, unfortunately the article misses it entirely by advocating people don't have to 'right' to demand equal pay because they're guilty of the same thing (by association).
It's the kind of tit-for-tat moral whataboutism that really doesn't do much to solve either problem.
Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
by mwcampbell on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:52PM
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True, the author backed away from the uncomfortable point when they wrote:
> I don’t have a good answer to this, but I buy Chinese- and Bangladeshi-manufactured clothes anyway.
But that doesn't mean we should avoid the more difficult discussion. I know that I'm privileged, and I figure I should focus on what I do, not what's done to me. I expected more commenters on this thread to take that position. As it is, the insistence on discussing what we are paid just makes us look like prima donnas.