Smasharoo wrote:
Um... Because quite a lot of the time you don't want or need someone to work full time for you, or for a full year?
You paid them by the task. If you were milking cows, you'd pay them per bucket. The concept of labor as a valuing time is strictly a post labor movement thing.
It's an industrial revolution thing really (at least large scale time based labor forces). Labor movements largely started *after* mass labor (ie: factories). Which is kinda obvious if you stop and think about it.
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I guess maybe you'd pay a general laborer by the day if he was doing some generic thing? Certainly no one was booking and keeping track of hours in a time where most people didn't own clocks. Just think about how idiotic the logistics would have been.
Yeah. Hence my comment earlier about paying by the day. Same concept though. Day labor has existed for a long time. There are documented examples going back to Egypt. Interestingly enough, the distinction between salary and time based pay was present then as well. The overseers were paid a contract sum for building some specific thing, or providing X goods, etc. The people he hired were generally paid for the time they worked. So no, this is not some new thing that has only existed since the invention of labor unions and overtime pay.
This, and many other false historical assumptions are kinda the hallmark of modern progressive movements. You need to lie to people about the base human condition in order to get them to accept the one you're trying to sell. It's not surprising really. It's just funny to watch you sputter and grasp at straws trying to defend the lies. I never quite know if you are trying hard to defend what you really believe to be true, or if you know it's all BS, but for some silly reason want people to believe it. I mean, c'mon. You can't possibly really think that time based pay only exists as a result of modern labor regulations, can you? Or can you? Hmmm....
Edited, Jan 7th 2015 6:25pm by gbaji