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Why should skilled laborors be able to raise a family and not unskilled? Like what makes educated people more valuable as human beings?
by behringer 7y ago
Why should skilled laborors be able to raise a family and not unskilled? Like what makes educated people more valuable as human beings?
- dymk 7y agoAlmost anybody is able to become a skilled laborer :) all it takes is time and effort.
- behringer 7y agoAnd a skilled laboror doesn't deserve more than 60-100k/year or more than? Why should everybody's pay be the same or decreasing and not CEOs and VCs?
- dymk 7y agoYou should be paid what the market says you’re worth, which is exactly what you can negotiate to be paid.
- behringer 7y agoWhich is exactly what we're talking about. Instead of getting paid what we're worth, we have mega corporations like Uber breaking laws, ignoring regulations, and then lobbying for regulations when it suits them. It's rather disgusting.
- moogly 7y agoWe can't all be skilled labourers. Who will perform all the unskilled labour that's needed for society not to grind to a halt?
- malandrew 7y ago> Like what makes educated people more valuable as human beings? On average, educated people contribute more value to the functioning of society. I can drive myself around. I can't perform my own heart surgery. The argument that all humans are inherently equally valuable is specious reasoning. I can come up with all sorts of trolly car conundrums that if you were forced to choose, you'd make a value judgement about which person to save because they have more value.
- behringer 7y agoWe have enough money to make sure everyone can have a home, medicine, and food and water, even if you just drive a cab all your life.
- malandrew 7y agoYes, but not any home wherever they want to live by themselves and not any medicine or medical treatment available. Some things are scarce resources and should be priced accordingly.
- fwip 7y agoMaybe instead of arguing about who deserves to get hit by the trolley, we should be changing the system that is tying people to the tracks.