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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Women just naturally take worse paying jobs. It's in our nature. very-smart

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (9 children)

The way things are set up, the more important and vital something is to the actual functioning of society, the less it is paid. The reverse of that is the more parasitic or net-negative the job is, the better paid.

Hedge fund managers are a massive net negative and are paid the most. the-more-you-know

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And mothers are arguably the greatest net positive and that’s unpaid.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No wonder chuds want there to be more mothers, regardless of material conditions and society's support or lack thereof... more unpaid labor. you-are-a-serf

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Crying and sobbing when I see my beefy paycheck because it causes gender dysphoria.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Crying and sobbing when I see my beefy paycheck because it causes gender dysphoria.

dril potential.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

naturally

this is because while women do be shopping they instinctually know they must be shopping using their husband's (who they show infinite deference to as is the natural order of humanity) money.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This has the same energy as Paul Krugman saying inflation doesn't exist if you simply ignore the cost of food, clothing, shelter, fuel, utilities, and transportation.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I still don't know what the fuck is left to Paul Krugman after that. puzzled

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Buying a flat screen TV has never been more affordable!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Did you ever consider... having a phone is greater luxury than being a medieval king? smuglord

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Having all the knowledge of the world in my pocket, so that I know that I am well and truly fucked. Truly a blessing from m'lord. you-are-a-serf

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Enchanted rocks screaming about you being trapped in the belly of a dying beast this-is-fine

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna keep myself warm with the thought that peasants didn't know the luxury of flavor blasted cool ranch doritos.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

They couldn't even imagine mountains of plastic trash that sticks around decades after its manufacture, all in the shape of teenage mutant ninja turtles that love pizza.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Exactly my thought. You're supposed to adjust for irrelevant variables.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Once you do the very scientific work of simply ignoring all variables that contribute to the gender gap, it no longer exists!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

The only variable they care about is "ARE THE FEEEEMALES DOING THIS WORK?" and then making sure they're paid less so they can try to pressure the feeemale into being their unpaid mommy bangmaid helpmeet. so-true

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He turned Twitter into a fascist echo chamber and now he is completely unaware of how bad it looks when replies "!!" to a lukewarm gender pay gap penalty that is probably never ever gonna materialise.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

It's a drop of piss in an ocean of cryptofascist piss at this point, even to him. It's just the background hum of the self-congratulatory echo chamber he's bought for himself.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

the data is clear: boys go to college to get more knowledge, girls go to jupiter to get more stupider

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Men are the logical and rational members of the species bazinga which is why they have measured and nonemotional responses when they see a feeemale in their treats that doesn't look like a cartoon porn character.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Counterfactual: In a free marketplace of ideas, some boys will choose to go to Mars to get more bars.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

If you control for the fact that we have labeled specific jobs for women and have systematically denigrated and underpaid women for those jobs, you can clearly see that women just happen to take lower paying jobs and thus there is no pay gap! I'm very smart.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

nerd "...particularly the most important variable: how much I personally assume and/or want this to be true."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Men are the logical rational ones that have zero emotional problems ever ever ever, and we're not superstitious either. I know this because MBTI tests show me as a solid INTJ. berdly-smug

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If businesses could pay women less to do the same job they would preferentially hire women and the pay gap would disappear.

Yes I think perfectly rational actors is a valid assumption to base my whole field of study on why do you ask?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

A significant portion of the pay gap is that women's work is underpaid, and men over represent in bullshit overpaid jobs.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (6 children)

After unsuccessfully trying to trade a horse for a hand job Elon concludes that the gender pay gap must be a myth.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

What could a handjob cost, one horse? how-much-could-it-cost

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

The gender pay gap doesn't exist but also I think it would be very bad if there were a law requiring it to not exist.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The gender pay gap doesn’t exist, but if it does it’s a good thing

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why is that the flow and pattern of so much fascist shit? "It didn't happen; if it did, it didn't go far enough/it should happen." susie-baffled

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

In Brazil companies have to report the average and median of salaries of employees, by position, and self reported race and gender. I'm the BI analyst on the company I work for and HR asked me for a python script to do that, I was hoping they slip up and send me the complete salary company information but their smart asses send me the salary column with just 100 for everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean if true that's cool. Extremely critical support.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

top-cop "I learned a thing or two as the chief of the VolCel Police in HexBear County."

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Once again, gender-based pay discrimination is already against the law in many European countries. Obviously doesn't fully address the problem, but works fine, not a huge deal.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I went looking for this plan, because I wondered if the fine would actually be more than the gaps in question. News articles from 2019 linked to her website, but she's since removed it. Her error message:

404

This page exists in the context of

all that came before it.

Followed by donation buttons, naturally.

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