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Your value to society is the value of your work which in everyone else's context is your value. No one cares if your apartment is clean which is why no one pay
by purple-again 9y ago
Your value to society is the value of your work which in everyone else's context is your value.
No one cares if your apartment is clean which is why no one pays you to clean your apartment.
- jacalata 9y agoAh, so Steve jobs was worth $1/year.
- purple-again 9y agoSigh. In what version of the world do you believe Steve Jobs ever went a year of making $1? Even if his tax return showed income of $1 for that year (it never did) the net worth of his assets increased significantly during the year and the value of that would be captured eventually.
- jacalata 9y agoI don't, but people who believe one silly thing often believe others so I thought you might. Let's go with some other examples: open source software. Breastfeeding. Ooh, how about literally every person in America under 10 years old? They're all worthless and society wouldn't be negatively affected if they disappeared out of existence? After all, close enough to 0 of them are being paid by anyone.
- AstralStorm 9y agoHer got paid by stock dividend. Had a pretty important share in Apple Inc.
- Consultant32452 9y ago$1 CEO salaries are just to let them avoid paying FICA (Medicare/Medicaid). Don't be fooled by this marketing tactic which is really just a tax dodge.
- rifung 9y ago> Your value to society is the value of your work which in everyone else's context is your value. But certainly you must interact with people outside of your job?
- everheardofc 9y agoExcept the entire point is that the demand sets the amount of money you earn and not your capability. You could be einstein in the sahara and yet still be stuck doing subsistence farming. The GP projects this demand based income as personal worth even though multiple income levels are possible which would imply multiple "worths". What you do doesn't define your worth. A system for rewarding and punishing somebody for good or bad work already exists. There is no need for some bullshit "value" or "worth" concept that is attached to the person.
- marcus_holmes 9y agowhich is also why our society has a huge problem about child-rearing and old age care. it has value to society, massive value. If no-one does it, society collapses pretty quickly. But we don't pay people (women, mostly) to do it.
- majewsky 9y agoSo no one cares if I let my parents rot to death once they cannot take care of themselves anymore. Got it.
- jacalata 9y agoOr if you drop your kids off at school and never come back for them. Nobody is paying you to look after them, right?