> Good luck retaining any skilled professionals then. I was thinking exactly the same. I’m spinning up a small technical manufacturing business and my first pr

> Good luck retaining any skilled professionals then. I was thinking exactly the same. I’m spinning up a small technical manufacturing business and my first products will have wireless capabilities. I’d better not pay my wireless engineers and programmers the same price as my unskilled assemblers. The former can save me hundreds of thousands per year with their acquired knowledge; the latter, dozens of dollars over China. And if I ever get big enough to need C-level execs, I’ll never fill the positions with good employees on tech support pay. This world is set up to reward value, not hard work. It’s hard work to dig a ditch, but not terribly valuable. A well-paid, intelligent, quality C-level exec can create more value in a week than a hundred cashiers can in a month.