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Once you adjust everything for income, you obviate the entire purpose of having an income. If a raise doesn't actually get you anything because your expense are
by quotemstr 9y ago
Once you adjust everything for income, you obviate the entire purpose of having an income. If a raise doesn't actually get you anything because your expense are pegged to your income, you don't have an incentive to get a raise. Society runs on incentives for performance.
- brandonmenc 9y agoWell OP isn't suggesting adjusting everything for income - just this one thing.
- wpietri 9y agoDefinitely. One criterion I'd use is necessity vs luxury. In many places, having a car to get to work is necessity. And I'd add that I think the notion that society runs on incentives for performance is a very narrow view. How many people here picked software as a profession because it would maximize lifetime income, versus it being a thing that they really loved? It's always some of both, surely. And more.