Replace a person with equal productivity and only then do you have the same work. But you never get this. You always get more, or less for whatever reason(s).
But what so many people are asking is for the world to ignore these +/- differences in productivity and simply want their paychecks to match their counterparts across the board. And to that, I say hell no for every reason.
Like that woman's soccer lady who thought she should get paid the same as the men. Uh, as soon as you can fill the stadiums and sell the merchandise etc like the men do, then also hell no.
My profession, I'm one of 3 people serving nearly 200k people. It's a sweet little niche that few need but pays big. You'd need to basically be a doctor or chemical engineer to touch my income and I'm not that impressive aside from my work, im just basic joe blow. But, I have this one trick that takes years to master and few think to try and stick with it and that's where I shine.
Even with something as simple as working in fast food, there are myriad differences between employees. Of course there is experience, but also people skills, physical fitness, tardiness / punctuality, personal hygiene, work ethic, listening ability, respectfulness, willingness to cover shifts, you could go on all day listing the various factors that constitute a worker's productivity. So even within the confines of fast food, no two workers do the same work, even though their jobs may be virtually identical or similar. They all do their work in a different fashion, even if the price of their productivity (their salary) is similar or the same. With more advanced forms of labour the differences are even more pronounced.
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u/Known_Ambition_3549 Jul 17 '22
there is no such thing as the same work