Op-ed recommendation: Why white women must make the equal-pay fight more inclusive

Oop! Sorry. All you damnable, upstart women seem the same to me! :grimacing:

*sigh

I’d love it if we could assume companies, or really any group that benefits from distributed responsibility, were good faith actors. And I guess it is especially ironic that merely demonstrating a valuable characteristic more common to women would be something I saw as a potential negative… but only because bad faith actors, which any entity partaking in wage gouging or other unfair treatment can certainly be counted among, will abuse any leeway given them by anybody.

I can certainly see that it is better for companies to keep experienced, trusted people who have proven themselves good at their jobs but it’s also in the companies (short term) interest to abuse all of its wage slaves as much as it possibly can whilst also lobbying for the right to treat them even worse.

No one accused the free market of having a conscience… or really any kind of human-centric focus.

I think I’m trying to say that good arguments will fall on deaf ears because the established system is so fucked that dealing with it in a good faith fashion is practically impossible. They must be bent to the will of the people, not encouraged to do the right thing by cogent arguments. They eat cogent arguments for breakfast with a little laugh.

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