I disagree, Kelly. I think differential pay is fine, as long as everyone has enough. This view is virtually universally shared among working people, as far as I knwo, and I _don't_ think this is bourgeois ideology. Moreover, it's important that we be able to give people incentives to do kinds of work we want done that they might not otherwise do, that we do reward effort and acheivement, and that we get some sense of what it costs us to have people do the various things they do. I don't say the labor market in capitalsim does this very well. But I don't think everyone should receive the same income regardless of the value of their work (or lack of it) to society. --jks
>
>
>ach. i was pointing out that the very notion that work ought to be
>measured by "productivity" and, worse, that we have an objective standard
>by which to measure and then compare is part of a system of
>oppression! the very idea that we ought to pay people based on
>productivity, the very idea that we ought to pay people based on the idea
>that one person's labor is more important or crucial than another--that's
>where oppression comes in to play!
>
>it's the very things we take for granted as normal that are integral to the
>operations of structural racism and sexism!
>
_________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com