Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence

• bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A rising tide lifts all boats but Hollywood sucks and these strikes for equal pay want me to make the same money as them despite the fact I do more work.

  I wish the auto unions the best through.

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  • Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then you need to be paid more. A union could accomplish that.

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    • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That wouldn't accomplish anything because if I make more for the hours I work all of a sudden there's a pay gap again.

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      • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A pay gap for who? What the hell are you even talking about

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      • Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I assumed you had a different job that has had wages stagnant as well. Am I wrong?

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like you are upset about your own career choices. Just because something doesn’t seem like work to you doesn’t mean there is no value in it. The reason they get paid more than you is because their industry generates more revenue than your and/or its shared more equally.

    Who’s to say you don’t do more work because you are inefficient? What value do you add, should be the question. Everyone can add value in some way. Plenty of people can take but these people who are striking are the actual creators in their industry adding all the value.

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    • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The reason they get paid more than you is because their industry generates more revenue than your and/or its shared more equally.

      Wat? When was I complaining about people making more money than me?

      Who’s to say you don’t do more work because you are inefficient?

      Again. Wat?

      We're talking about statistical averages across the whole economy here. Statistically, the women protesting against the pay gap are protesting so that they get paid "equally" for less work.

      Unless you want to suggest that women are generally more efficient in their labor than men are, you're talking crazy here.

      And if you do want to suggest that, you're still talking crazy.

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      • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We’re talking about statistical averages across the whole economy here. Statistically, the women protesting against the pay gap are protesting so that they get paid “equally” for less work.

        Who said the women do less work than you? They do equal work and are asking for equal pay. Are you insinuating that you can do more work than a woman possibly could? Because that’s just not true.

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