Unless you are blatantly arguing in favor of discrimination, there is no reason why gender should be a factor that affects your rate of pay.
As for "fairness in pay", the only way to ensure actual fairness would be to guarantee all workers direct, democratic ownership over the profits/products of their own labor.
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First and foremost, I believe in a merit-based system. Pay should be determined by an individual's skills, qualifications, and performance, not their gender. In the business world, results matter, and that's what should dictate compensation. Women who excel and deliver results are already being rewarded equally. It's not about gender; it's about competence. Furthermore, the gender wage gap often cited is misleading. Many studies fail to consider relevant factors such as career choices, working hours, and job preferences. Women may sometimes choose different career paths that pay differently.
@VulcanMan6 10mos10MO
The entire point was that gender should not affect pay, yes, so you agree with me.
Secondly, though, the claim that wage gaps are misleading because they don't consider other factors is what is actually misleading, because studies DO still consider those kinds of additional factors. Many people often falsely use pay averages as a whole across the board, despite that not actually being what studies point out, but that's only an issue with the public's lack of understanding the issue, not an issue with the studies themselves.
@TruthHurts10110mos10MO
Well hate to burst your Statist bubble, but where'd you get the idea that the GOVERNMENT of all things has ANY business regulating private business?!
@VulcanMan6 10mos10MO
So yes or no, should businesses be allowed to discriminate?
If no, then what's the issue?
If yes, then you're simply a bad person.
@TruthHurts10110mos10MO
That's the fallacy of bifurcation. By asking if I'm a good person or I support government coercion over private business, you eliminate the third possibility, which happens to be a true one -- I dislike discrimination but don't think government is within its rights to regulate it. It's like asking if a traffic light is red or green, not considering it may be yellow.
