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> If I work twice as hard as you at the same task, you should not make as much as I do.

If you're struggling to program something and I do it easily, you should be compensated for your incompetence?

Work shouldn't be defined by effort but by results -- and that isn't always reasonable to quantify (which would be needed if it was to be the basis of a (fair) reward system).

I agree that "perfect equality" isn't an ideal (in pretty much anything). I do thing equal opportunity is a worthy goal, though.



you just haaaaad to bring up programming skills, didn't you. FINE. but it's not always programming that gets things done. sometimes its the determination in your veins not the dexterity of your mind that counts for the most. remember that.. remember that.


I'm sure even Ford would agree that working smart trumps working "hard" most of the time...




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