On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Justin Schwartz wrote:
> 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
>
Call me a dreamer, but I thought the whole idea of marxism was the eventual elimination of wage labor. Granted, providing incentives to people in the U. S. to be physicians in rural areas is a reasonable idea, but is that as good as it gets?
Miles