reparations & exploitation

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>The problem with management giving people different levels of
>pay is that in most if not all cases the differences will be
>motivated not by productivity, which is a mystery not well
>understood by managers, but by power, influence and prejudice.
>That being the case, the pay differentials are one more
>resonance of the existing class system, both receiving and
>transmitting its fundamental violence.
>

There's a good deal of that. One hopes it would be less pronounced under 
socialism. But pay differentials are not the problem with capitalsim. Class 
differentials are the problem. Btw, I wasn't making productivity the key 
factor; it's a factor, but not the only one. Another consideration is 
providing incentives for people to go into kinds of work and areaswhere we 
want them. Thus we might pay a  premium for people to become physicians in 
rural areas or inner cities. --jks

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