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

• 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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      • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Did you read the thread? Did you read the title of the thread? Did you read any of the previous comments?

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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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      • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My specific situation is not important beyond the fact that I'm a guy so I am statistically going to work more hours and to devote more of my life to work as well as choosing my career based on income rather than any sort of life satisfaction than the average woman.

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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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      • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Who said the women do less work than you?

        BLS data?

        They do equal work

        They don't.

        Are you insinuating that you can do more work than a woman possibly could?

        Literally nothing I said implied that that. Plenty of individual women do as much or more work than the average guy. Statistically the average woman does less.

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