reparations & exploitation

[Justin Schwartz]

Right, Yoshie, but just because we haven't got the rewards and incentives 
right now doesn't mean that we shouldn't have rewards and incentives. No one 
on thsi list thinks we have the rewards and incentives right now. No one 
here who defends differential compensation thinks that the current 
capitalist market produces defensible outcomes. It's not to the point, 
therefore, to say to someone like me, who thinks that we should 
differentially reward effort and achievement, or like Catherine, who says we 
should encourage education by paying the educated more (and I agree), that 
there are peverse incentives and rewards built into our current way of doing 
things. However, Yoshie knows this, as her thoughtful post on the lessons of 
perestroika from yesterday shows. --jks


>>
>>2) i personally want to reward people for undertaking extended
>>education -- which in very pragmatic terms is often unrewarded, and
>>which i think has major social benefits in terms of the 'awareness' of
>>the rest of the world it provides/sustains, and in some respects my
>>kind of job is a material example of why that's worth the effort


>>Catherine
>
>If I cleaned houses for 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, in the USA or
>Japan, I would make more money than I do now.

Yoshie.
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