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My observation in the US is that there is a pretty big gap in perception of how professionals or managers should be paid versus ordinary workers. You'll find pe
by nitwit005 9y ago
My observation in the US is that there is a pretty big gap in perception of how professionals or managers should be paid versus ordinary workers. You'll find people who would never consider paying workers more than minimum wage, and yet consider the bills from lawyers and consultants perfectly reasonable.
Part of it seems to be a general belief that some sorts of expensive professionals are better, much like how people assume pricey wine tastes better, but I suspect most of it's just class issues.
- shados 9y agoSomeone above mentioned it, but basically, for low skill/manual labor, there is a level at which you'll say "I can do it myself", or "I can hire some intern or random kid to do this". And that's the hard cap ofr those jobs. While you can represent yourself in court, it's probably a bad idea (and you can't legally do it for someone else, so you HAVE to cough up t he $$$). On the other hand, I personally have a very high appreciation for high quality manual labor (eg: carpentry) and I'm always looking for the best money can buy in those areas....and it's impossibly hard. Since no one else seem to value it, no one does it. Everyone's optimizing for cost. I had a very difficult carpentry job that needed to be done recently, and I went hunting for the best of the best, offering well over what a lawyer or software engineer would make. Crickets. It took over a year to find someone. Those people no longer exist since there's no market for it.
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