reparations & exploitation

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Mar 12 12:54:27 PST 2001



> > The most incompetent people in any large organization are apt to be
>> those who make the judgments as to the most and least productive. The
>> only defense against this is an elimination of all merit pay and merit
>> promotions. Lock step seniority and depend on the bell curve.
>>
>> Carrol
>*********
>
>No. This leads to free riding by those with the seniority and just
>pushes divide
>and rule into a different "space" in the corporate hierarchy. When
>was the last
>time you saw an incompetent chief financial officer sticking around
>for long at
>a major US corp. Everyone is incompetent from at least one other person's pov.
>
>Ian

A struggle against merit pay & merit promotions is a struggle against the management power to determine which worker is or isn't competent, productive, etc.

Yoshie



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