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If a person does a job of a cashier, should that person be compensated appropriately for their time?
by merinowool 8y ago
If a person does a job of a cashier, should that person be compensated appropriately for their time?
- agumonkey 8y agoThis era will see some debate on the value of the idea of job.
- adventured 8y agoThat's not the question. The question is whether the job should exist at all vs the cost of a fair wage in that job if it does continue to exist. Should we hire five million people to unnecessarily sit and click a button or type out phone numbers to send text messages and connect phone calls to their destination through a switch in the cell networks? We could make it that way. Rhetorically how much would that job be worth? That's why it doesn't and shouldn't exist.
- merinowool 8y agoIf machine is capable of doing the same job as human, then machine should be paid salary that could be then used for healthcare, electricity or education.
- loco5niner 8y agoThat's an absurd statement. The job it replaced doesn't just go away. The people who made the machine can either sell it or lease it for a profit. That's where the job goes. To the machine-maker.
- 1stranger 8y agoThat's an absurd statement. Should you get compensated for throwing your trash away too? In reality you're "compensated" by having a burger that costs $5 instead of $10.
- merinowool 8y agoThis is not a great analogy, because you are paying for the trash to be taken with your taxes.