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Meritocratic enough for unequal income between skilled and unskilled labour?
by Dude2018 9y ago
Meritocratic enough for unequal income between skilled and unskilled labour?
- tpallarino 9y agoThe funniest part of this is that Facebook provides almost no value to society, while the food service workers do.
- robocat 9y agoOn the contrary, how we want to use our free time is the most important outcome of society, everything else is work.
- chii 9y agoFacebook is providing value. They aren't providing it for free here, which is to say, they are extracting the price for said value. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is providing value, and isn't extracting the price. Therefore they rely on donations. If Wikipedia extracted their price for the amount of value they provide, I'd say they'll be one of the biggest companies in the world.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoMeritocracy is more about how we sort people into skilled and unskilled labor positions. Which is to say that a pay difference between skilled and unskilled labor is the outcome of a capitalist system but a system which gives everyone an equal shot at being skilled labor is a meritocratic one. Which is why I'm curious about your opinion of how meritocratic our society is today.