Do you "fair wage" people really want to see "fair pay"?

[Kenneth-Kaunda]

Originally Posted by TrapperJohn

Then why the support for the Mexicans and the other immigrants by the liberals? They drive down wages.

I guess that would be the more conservative liberals you are talking about.

agreed though, immigration should be scaled right back so that local workers can earn decent wages.

The immigrants only aid the rich.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by alphamale

But we with critical thinking skills realize that YOU are responsible for you, not your employer, not the government.

How profound. I mean, i've never heard anyone say that stuff before.

[freemkt]

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Originally Posted by freemkt
If employee A is 25% more productive than employee B, can you tell us with a straight face that the value of A's labor is 20 cents more per hour than B's labor?

Originally Posted by alphamale

No. I would bet that its valued at 25% more...unless they're unionized....then, they all get paid equally. That's why American productivity has gone to hell.

This is the low-wage world in which many people live. It's the experience at my previous job. We didn't have benchmarks to go by - our employer never specified any, although we had goals such as upselling. (The boss was the only one who knew exactly how much upselling each of us was achieving.)

But we were generally able to tell who the better performers were, qualitatively is not quantitatively, and I doubt absolutely that our performance range was the mere 3% reflected in a wage range of 20 cents.