Only if you think that mothers and fathers are the same and interchangeable.

I think most of us think they're not, and there's biology to support that (hormones, pheremones, breast feeding, etc). Of the people I know who think mothers and fathers are interchangable, none of them have raised kids.

Right - a independent, successful woman who has plenty of options decides - makes the conscious choice - to stay home and raise her kids, and that's still an issue of sexism?

Stop telling people what to think. Women, and everyone else, have the right to self determination. Oh but she made a choice you don't approve of, so clearly we can't take her decision seriously as being her decision, after all, she made the wrong one. Did I get that right?

If someone wants to stay home and raise their kids, you have no business telling them what to do. Why don't you look at it as sacrificing her career in order to make sure her kids are raised well? Can't you respect her decision enough to not view her as a victim but look at her as someone who did something noble? And it was noble, so have a little respect.

Valuable in the sense I'm using it means the amount of compensation you can get for it. I don't mean moral value, or value to society, or any other meaning of value, just the amount you get paid. The amount you get paid is dictated entirely by how much you're worth to an employer (demand) and how easy that position is to fill (supply), which has no moral judgments in it.

I'm not saying people shouldn't do selfless things, or accept lower paying jobs that help people.

Also, jobs that have a high social benefit, their salaries are also regulated by the same forces and are not always low. Doctors get paid a lot because it takes a smart person ten years to become a doctor, and they are very much needed and provide a great benefit to society. An engineer who can design a new hybrid car is the same.

There are no moral judgments involved, you're simply selling your services on an open market.

Exactly. In your example supply for the (level of) service you provide would be extremely low.

You don't get paid based on how much you or anyone else thinks you deserve. You get paid based on what salary you can command, which is regulated by supply and demand.

It's not an outrage at all that one kind of job doesn't get the same salary as another. If you want more money do something more valuable, which will be something there is a lower supply and/or a higher demand for.

Well, the production of things like LCD screens are naturally resistant to being driven by market economies.

You need hundreds of millions of dollars in investment before you can make a single screen, so naturally there are only going to be one or a small number of companies capable of making them. I think this is a trend we're going to see more of with different products, as producing high tech things isn't conducive to having a large number of small manufacturers. Who in the world can make the an intel chip?

Since this trend is natural and basically unavoidable, we have to step up antitrust investigation and prosecution. Markets don't always occur naturally, sometimes monopolies occur naturally, and then you need government intervention to turn the monopolies or trusts either into competitive markets or into into regulated monopolies if that's impossible.

Why isn't there an automatic "-1, paranoid delusional mental midget" moderation for when any link is posted that has any association with Alex Jones?