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    Yes, equal pay for equal work is important. No matter what capitalism tells you.

    This is unimportant because it happens all the time today

    You didn’t even make it better with your edit. It’s not OK just because it happens everywhere.

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      You didn’t even make it better with your edit. It’s not OK just because it happens everywhere

      That’s not what I refer to by saying “it happens all the time”. What happenes all the time is people making allegations about taboo subjects and positioning themselves as the victim to get money and attention.

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        doesn’t mean everyone positioning themselves as a victim is someone wanting money and attention. I didn’t say they’re right, I just said it is probably not unimportant when they go so far to run a class-action lawsuit. You don’t shit thousands of dollars in lawyers’ throats when you have no chance of winning.

        And even if they don’t have any base for their claims, the case is still interesting because we’d see who wins even if there’s no hard evidence ;)

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          Not everyone does it, but enough people do that enough people do that I can’t help but be skeptical and roll my eyes.

          And even if they don’t have any base for their claims, the case is still interesting because we’d see who wins even if there’s no hard evidence ;)

          Can’t argue with that :)

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      I think you missed what this s/he tried to point out. No one is arguing that equal pay is not important, and that it is fine if it’s not. This comment is talking about that they may be using current political mood to win themselves public praise and a lot of money, while maybe just being less competent than colleagues that they pointed at. This comment isn’t talking about google.

      Let’s just hope judge will get to the truth :)

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        may be using current political mood to win themselves public praise

        maybe just being less competent

        OK, so we’re doing in dubio pro reo for corporations with a bad track record now? On Lemmy? I must have missed something.

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          I’m not talking about google at all. Life is not black and white. Systems heavily impact human bevaviour, but google is a company full of different people. There can be a milion of reasons how they ended up with lower pay, and it ended up in court.

          They can’t be ideologicaly saint or moraly clean if they work there, assuming that google is evil (well I try to stay as far from their products as I can).

          They got suddenly woke after realising that they wanted higher pay. It’s not statistics, there should be some record on every person and reason why they got such and such salary. If they have higher qualifications, work there or in industry longer, work more/better, and have smaller pay then they should get rise and there is a lot of dumb people at google because they should realise that and do review of everyones pay and correct them. Instead this ended up in court. So this didn’t happen and a lot of people is really hard headed there or unusually google is a victim here. We will see who wins, and if we agree.

          I would like to see floss thrive, but not because of woke people destroying companies from inside for no reason, or for wrong reasons.

          I’m dubious about morality when huge amounts od money are on the stake. Because there is a difference between fighting for some one/group of people to change and become better, and wanting to get rich quick on someones back and slap human rights sticker on it.

          Also I can be totally wrong with every idea above. And I can see your point of view.

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      People lie a lot, man or woman. I’m sure they are just trying to take money out of Google. They have such an easy case.