Word: decentering
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...President Lawrence H. Summers continues to ruminate the suggestions of the Katz Committee, any further discussion about the living wage should center on the fundamental premise that people should lead dignified and decent lives. Moreover, Harvard has the financial and intellectual capacity to reflect on the state of society and on its own institutional culture. It should therefore constantly consider how to improve the lives of all members of its own and the wider community...
...food ran $86. The short wine list includes decent bottles for $24 to $50. Le Gigot is open for lunch and dinner every day but Monday. American Express and cash only. You needn't whisper, but you could--and you would be heard...
...work neither efficiently nor well. Especially in cafeteria food service and janitorial work, which are not closely supervised, slowdowns and corner-cutting are easy. If I were a cashier at the Science Center, I would work with “all deliberate speed.” If you expect decent work out of people whose functions are vital to the running of the University then you must pay what is widely regarded as a decent wage...
Which of these approaches is correct, and which of the wages actually adequate? Even if one finds the right to a decent wage to be obvious, there’s nothing obvious about what that wage should be, or what it should buy at Boston prices. If there were, wouldn’t the smart people who composed the studies PSLM cites have generated numbers in a somewhat narrower range...
...come up with our own ideas of what kind of wages are adequate and what kind of lives are decent and dignified. Perhaps all of us, or almost all, would agree that Harvard’s wages fall below that line. And perhaps it’s possible to aggregate the various opinions of community members and describe that figure as the prevailing community standard...