Posted on 04/14/2014 12:45:46 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sure - but not everyone. Most people would be pretty uncomfortable trying to get a 20% raise, because someone else told them to.Put it in context - maybe you just got a raise. Do you feel comfortable demanding 20% more on top of that? Or maybe you just screwed something up at work - do you feel like demanding a 20% raise?
But even then, there is a limit in their minds. It is like any bargaining. No matter how good one is, employer is going to have a cap on the value of the job itself. Otherwise even the best of us could demand $1 mil and get it.
(And this ignores official budgets.)
True, but the Dems’ argument is that all things considered, the men still end up making more. Our psychological outlook, mostly subconscious, is that men are worth more and deserve more, so they get more.
The problem is, and I wish someone would deal with this from a Republican/conservative perspective, is how do we solve this? A good point might be that there is no way to solve it. Another good point might be that solving it is a worse outcome, because we would have to interfere with a company’s private business decisions. But let’s not just keep heaping the same old tired excuses for it. We’ll get nowhere by denying it.
As a woman I call BS and say just let people - that includes bosses - do what they want. No one has to take a job they don’t want. That is the problem with liberals - because their fantasy is that everyone be under their control, they assume that is how everything works - bosses control everyone like slaves, so the employees somehow have no choice. Truth is we do, and it’s about time we started acting like it.
Well, sure. That’s the libertarians’ all-purpose argument. You don’t like the idea that the men in your department make more than you do? OK, go home and bake cookies. Or go to engineering school at the age of 50. They are choices in the dictionary definition but in real life they suck.
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