I was talking about DIFFERENTIAL pay, for whatever the reason. And I do think incentive effects, another consequentialist consideration, are real. And, finally, I do think that people who work harder or contribute more (not the same thing) deserve more, another taht does not trump, and I recognize that measurement of those "more" factors is a very rough and ready proposition. But hasn't anyone here worked in a na environment where he or she had to pick up the work for a slacker who was being paid just as much (or more),a nd resented it? Didn't you think that person was in fact exploiting you? That is the experential basis of working class belief in productivity-based pay differentials. --jks
>
> > IMHO, social justice means
> > >equal pay
> > >for everyone, period, with the only allowable differentials being for
>dirty
> > >or dangerous work. Such a system would no doubt be less productive
>than
> > >what exists now, but so what?
>
>Justin Schwartz:
> > But don't we have to consider consequences? Suppose we don't have enough
> > doctors? Enough lawyers? Enough teachers? Suppose we want more teachers
>in
> > the cities or doctors in rural areas?
>
>Here we're talking about combat pay instead of productivity
>pay, which is quite a different sort of thing.
>
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