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Re:EU to mandate public salary information for all job posti... by jimbob45 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:25AM (#30442012)
Unless you’re on an assembly line, there is no such thing as “equal work”. Several of my colleagues and I share the same title, yet the women with that title objectively produce less than the men and absolutely deserve less pay (at my company).

Is that because of sexism? Or because we judge the individual, not the gender?

This seems like a backdoor for Socialism where this backwards logic is used to justify paying everyone the same rate and so people who are massively productive end up subsidizing those who are useless.

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Re:EU to mandate public salary information for all job posti... by waffleiron on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:31AM (#30442091)
>people who are massively productive end up subsidizing those who are useless.

They already do, you are subsidising owners/shareholders a lot more than you'll ever subsidise your "useless" colleagues.

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Re:EU to mandate public salary information for all job posti... by d0gsg0w00f on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:56PM (#30444058)
You act like being an investor is like a secret society where everyone is making easy money and the workers are the fools. Investing is a major risk and sometimes fails spectacularly.
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Re:EU to mandate public salary information for all job posti... by maerF0x0 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:31AM (#30442855)
see also: Taxes / redistribution.

Some amount of subsidizing "[economically] useless" people is a matter of society taking care of their lowest. Disabled people, people with IQ < 100, people who took good chances and had bad dice outcomes etc.

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