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[u/Mike_Kermin]

But they're not one person.

They're two people. And they're doing the work, of two people, because, they're both there doing the work.

Imagine you and your work mate, you have two salaries.

If I put a jumper on you, so you can't move away from each other. And I glue it on real good so you're stuck like that.

Is it ok to half your pay? Or maybe, fire you! That's be fine, right? That's so good, that's so good until you realise that's real. And that is bad for you. And now you can't pay your bills and your lifestyle is fucked and it's not your fault you didn't ask for the jumper it's just how it is....

Welcome to the bane of the disability, where the loser of the predatory assholery, is now YOU.

Then you'd care.

So I suggest, we employ empathy. And we decide that actually, they are two people. And they're both working. Which is backed up, by being true.

my chance of getting a girlfriend

Exploitation is unattractive.

[u/IrrawaddyWoman → u/Mike_Kermin]

They aren’t doing two jobs. I don’t understand why you can’t see this. They get to split a TON of the work of teaching up. One can grade while the other plans. One can email parents while the other inputs data. They are NOT doing two jobs. They’re two people who can divide up the work between them. That absolutely not doing the work of two teachers who each has their own class.

They can efficiently finish the same amount of work in much less time than the other teachers they work with because there are two of them. They aren’t each doing the full job. Stop saying they’re doing the work of two people, because they literally are not. If they were they would have twice the students, twice the grading etc.

[u/p-nji → u/IrrawaddyWoman]

This person thinks that if you're working, then you're performing a job and should get paid. Like, if you spend all day busting your ass running headfirst into a brick wall, then clearly you're doing work and should be offered good pay, insurance, and a 401k. By whom? Fairies, presumably.

Edit to respond to blocked comment: Yes, that's what I said. You think pay should be based on how long or how hard someone works rather than how much anyone else wants to pay for that work.

[u/Mike_Kermin → u/p-nji]

No, I think that if you do the hours, you should get paid.

They're both working, both doing the hours, so should both get paid.

The idea that our society can't manage that for the very small amount of conjoined twins is simply wrong.