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In article <9601151439.AA23322@corb>
[log in to unmask] "Indianapolis Art Center" writes:
(in response to Patrick Boylan's observations:
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> Wait a minute...the lowest paid get motivated by less money but the highest
> paid get motivated by more money? What's the logic behind this? Is it that
> the highest paid people need to be paid FIRST in order to get them to work
> harder to live up to their salary level, but the lowest paid people have to
> work hard before they get paid? Why are the lowest paid people
> underestimated in this manner? I had heard some terrible things about the
> rigidity of your class system but this is beyond me.
> ...
The logic is beyond me too (don't get me started, I'll be trying
to work out how selling our national railway to different companies
increases competition next).
I'm not sure that it is a class thing. One thing which has happened
through the booms and recessions of the 80s and 90s is that it is not
only the traditional working classes who make up the poor, and I remember
a Labour politician (Neil Kinnock?) saying that there was no point in
saying to the dockers 'Come, brothers, we will unite and leave our
poverty' any more since they all had vidoes, and were holidaying
on the Costa Brava.
As to why we underestimate the lowest paid ... I think that is a
natural human prejudice. Money is power, and those without power
are disregarded.
We live in interesting times.
--
Patricia Reynolds
Keeper of Social History, Buckinghamshire County Museum / Freelance Curator
16 Gibsons Green
Heelands
Milton Keynes
MK13 7NH
ENGLAND
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