House of Paine

boy roberts finds his pro profiteer groove early

  evomatic snap shot:

what  
    type of issue
    really 
   fired up  
  the  mind balls 
    of der junger roberts ?

  stuff like 
   
    gender 
           wage ghettos

  his  weighty entreeeeee
cometh forth

over 
   " rectifying  pay inequality 
       thru   applications 
         of the wage 
      equalization  doctrine"

     DBA :
          "comparable worth "

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   upshot:

  raw roberts to the "equal it up"  gals 

                  
    "ladies your slogan may 
           as well be 
'From each
 according to his ability,
         to each 
      according to her gender' "

  QUITE 
THE  JOHNSONIAN  TURN OF PHRASE
                          eh ?

        
                             
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In the  released documents
 from his white house years .... 
nyt sez 

"there was nothing "squishy" 
about Judge Roberts's response 
to an employment discrimination theory 
known as "comparable worth" 


"The theory started 
from the premise
 that antidiscrimination policies 
that addressed solely 
"equal pay for equal work" 
failed to take into account 
the fact that heavily female occupations
 generally paid less 
than male-dominated job categories"

------ this is a hopeless 
conflation and confusion 

short form 

the  comparability doctrine 
 extends 
the equal pay for equal work rule
beyond same job comparisons 

  
longer form 

the comparable worth doctrine: 


equal pay for equal work
to be fully fair
and encompassing
must 
not only equalize gender pay
                  for same jobs
but 
must also look across job categories 
and root out
unequal pay  rates
 that are clearly
  not based 
  on unequal job  worth 
but were produced 
by gender   
  oppression 

(in this case 
  mostly historic sheperding
of gals into certain jobs
and not hiring them 
when qualified
       for 
     a lot of better paying 
 male dom   jobs

ie markets for all jobs are not gender free and equal  )   


up in the ivory tower observatory 
training the scope
on hot spots is childs play 
u can get into contexts where 
 dice start rollin pretty quick here

but

 glaring  real cases 
(and there are tons of em )
could be nipped off first 
then 
 with all deliberate speed 
the dimmer  ones 
       could get "processed"
                   by degree of murk
alas 
   a road not followed
   here 
     but followed in  greater swedenavia 

really given the export of capital
this type of 
   leveling  up 
by state or union fiat 
is 
not at all "locally "
 incompatible with 
the  calm reproductions of capitalism 
its just not
wally boy prefered 
 for reasons i'll produce for you 
                   further on ...------------  

------at any rate
   de facto 
 gender job ghetto's
existed and exist 
cause wally  can make
some decent fuckin 
 non progressive
       super profits that way 
  
historically "the wallys
   obviously
       "produced" 
 these 
    juicy 
     galdom sector 
             "belower" wage rates 
but shit
better we 
 look at the  whole deal
another time ......

back 
to this case ---------------

------ it had a happy openning scene -------

"In 1984,
 a federal district judge
 in Tacoma, Wash., 
accepted the theory (of comparable worth)
and ordered new pay scales 
for female state employees 
in job categories 
where 70 percent or more 
of the workers were women"

------ of course 
the  big Ronnie buzzer
 went bonkers 
and  THE WHITE HOUSE
      decided to join the court scrap 
  up at the next level 
             but  --------------

"Three members of Congress, 
all Republican women,
 wrote to the White House 
not to join the state's appeal" 


----- enter roberts 
with  apropos memo to boss 
                  ------------


"I honestly find it troubling
 that three Republican representatives 
are so quick to embrace 
such a radical redistributive concept (sniff)" 

--------and then comes the  money shot -----------

"Their slogan may as well be (sniff)

'From each according to his ability,
 to each according to her gender.' " 

------------ 

(oh that "her"
      what a souffle  touch !!!!!)

young roberts
  must have been
  a strong jb jerk  guy 

the dogma :

"competitive markets 
produce marginal product 
rates of pay
any tampering 
with rates
 reduces efficiency 
and thus total output value "
                                 
  pangloss derivative
welfare theorem:

  job wage struggles  
in a free market world 
produce  
the fairest of all possible  rate outcomes
 
all market set  wage rates 
      are set according to work value

(errrr
     at the margin of course
           but thats another story  )

in such
a pipe dream 
   competitive  fair value
                  job  market world .....
       if women flooded 
         into certain  job categories 
            that 
                paid less
they  wereN'T
GETTIN GYPED BUY THE COMPANY

they   simply  were producing 
                         less value 
 
they were paid less
cause their job work 
             was  worth less 

so in this scheme
 where does  unequal pay
for   women 
       enter the picture frame  ?

 either 
thru  

a)
 gals are 
    less likely to be 
 qualified candidates
for higher value producing jobs 

fact of life girls 
in bulk 
you are   worth----less 

or 

b)
 gals
 are  being kept out 
of better paying jobs  
by black box 
         hiring practices

70's high  society opted for
  the b explanation

and 
 to rectify b

the efficient   road back to fairness 

goes either of two ways

the judge took the way
  of
raising the gal ghetto
relatve  wages 

ie
to jb jerks
the way of  free  market busting 

 the other way????

the market friendly way 

slap gal 
 hiring quotas 
 on the better paid jobs 



 redistribute the genders
among the existing 
efficiently wage rated jobs
                      
            
 heres where some  meta- econ con slips in .....



now  redistribution of job holders 
to equailize gender numbers
will get to fair 
alright but 
by 

creating  gender resentment 

just like its kissin cousin
               race  resentment 

u really start to notice 
the evil  beauty of this 
to wally world 
 if  we introduce 
a  massively bought market world 
   superstition 

that 
the total  wage fund is fixed 

if 

(as that  pack
  of neo-victorian lace curtain stinkers  
  pretend to  believe )

the share of wages 
     in total value added is ....
in the long run .....fixed 
no not rigged
   
    a  deep pit point 

a great  attractor 
 
among the motion laws of social reality 
in a capitalist system
this pit point
is well
better then malthus

again i digress


     
plans leveling up
in the long run
are not net class gainers 
 
only   redistribution
between the genders occurs 

thru
relative wage  rate shifts
there can be
 no rising all wagery boats effect 
   
(so  applications
 of   comparable worth 
are as divisive as quotas )


in any relative raise 
some wageling groups 
have to get their  toes pinched 

but 
what if the total wage share
               of total  value added
                            can  be raised 

 
then wam-oooooo

if u  raised  wage rates 
in gal type jobs 
 
the corporation's 
               profit share 
                  can  take the  hit 

tah  tah !

now reality is far more complex

no spontaneous result
for one set of interventions
to even  rates up
would work 
     so klass clean

but the points made 

and it sure looks 
better
   when you compare it 
         to the quota moves 
which insure no wage share rise 
and thus full pinch effects 

----------------------- 
lets review here:


the call for 
rectifying
        hire quotas 

exactly 
like neighborhood 
 school integration quotas 

promptly  sets

 the all low
        but still nicely unequal 
        helots 
          at each other's throats 

"let em try throwin
         each other
     out of better 
 jobs and places to live.... 
        any out come 
         is a win win 
              for uz 
                tower trolls " 
                              ------- 

-----back to the case from washington state -----

--------happy ending???

               nope   -----------

"The federal appeals court 
in San Francisco overturned
 the ruling the next year.....

-----and get this stinger ---------

 the overturning  opinion 
 was by 
 Judge Anthony M. Kennedy
 and of course
 
 didn't 
  old  king Ronnie 
  name 
  THIS CUFF  
to the Supreme Court 
             the very next chance he got 

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pedantic note

the washington judge was raising rates
  for non market determined  jobs 

gub jobs are ultimately
      not market amenable

and  without
 profiteers'
      Beckeresque
profit drive 
     FLESHING OUT 
the invisible hand 
of  fairness 

state pay rates 
are 
easily prone to 
arbitrary  out comes
in our case

either 
pro or anti gals 


so this  original decision 
 by itself
  was an   unlikely
    precedent  to apply
to the profit sector 
unless the court finds
we don't actually
live inside a perfect set of markets 
      
  
 
 a win
before even
 that first judge
 for "a comparable case" 
      say agin 

            boeing ??????

   who's court systems  
                are these pal 

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