Steve Palmer wrote:
>When you go under the knife, would you prefer that the surgeon has a
>qualification, or not? Would you rather fly in a plane designed by an
>egyptologist or an aeronautical engineer? Would you rather cross a bridge
>designed by a media studies buff or a civil engineer?
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Well, you know what they say about surgeons and their patients: kill
one, fix one, teach one.
Of course there are professions where training matters a lot; but there are many more where on simply learns on the job.
>Why a link between wage and education? This is a capitalist not a socialist
>society, so the wage depends on the cost of producing the labour-power, the
>scarcity of the skill, the tight organization of those with the skill etc.
>Quaint notions of 'justice', 'fairness' etc don't come into it.
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I know how the world wags; but on this list we also talk about how we'd
like to wag, or whether it makes any sense the way it wags.
Joanna
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