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How much value does the collecting of shopping carts gain a corporation, versus some employee in their mid-20s working on a core component of their company's ma
by utternerd 9y ago
How much value does the collecting of shopping carts gain a corporation, versus some employee in their mid-20s working on a core component of their company's machine learning offering? Depends on a number of factors, but generally speaking it's safe to say the latter provides substantially more value to the bottom line.
Saying there's no correlation to the value you provide your employer, and your pay is patently absurd, and simply pointing to some outliers (like CEOs) doesn't make this a binary function. If you provide great value, you will make a lot more than someone who fulfills functions a 15 year old can be trained to do in 30 minutes, and likewise, you'll be that much more difficult to replace.
- jefurii 9y agoI hope you remember your comment when you're 72 years old collecting those shopping carts.
- utternerd 9y agoHow do you know they're not doing it because they're not ready to retire? Why does everyone instantly believe someone working a remedial job in their 70s hates it? I strongly suspect by 70 I won't want to do what I'm doing now, too much stress, and if I'm not ready to retire it'd likely be low-key, undemanding work.
- ng12 9y agoAre we advocating for a proletariat uprising now? This is (within a rounding error) how capitalism always works. We got rid of the flophouse but not the people who need one.
- RussianCow 9y ago> Saying there's no correlation to the value you provide your employer, and your pay is patently absurd I don't think anyone here is saying that, are they? The parent comment is simply making the point that the gap between the two types of jobs is widening. I would go further and say that a lot of those jobs with a low barrier to entry are disappearing entirely due to automation and other factors.
- bbcbasic 9y agoTldr; Free market and Darwinism. Move on.