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Your economic worth is well defined by supply and demand. It is incoherent to say you are not "worth" the salary you are paid; if that were in fact the case, yo
by julienb_sea 5y ago
Your economic worth is well defined by supply and demand. It is incoherent to say you are not "worth" the salary you are paid; if that were in fact the case, your salary would be lower, or you would eventually not have your job.
Is this fair? I would argue yes. Economic worth is a transparent situation, and it is rather clear that by positioning a career towards high demand work, anyone can improve their station in life. This is much more fair compared to some alternate systems where winners and losers are arbitrary, and opaquely determined by politics.
- necovek 5y agoIt's not as simple: someone doing a mundane job in a rural town in USA south is likely still making more than a University professor here. So one has to optimize for the locality and/or have an opportunity to change it. I think it is unfair, since you have to control for many things not directly in your hands. Perhaps it feels worse because I've been hacking at computers since before it was clear it's the job of the future/present, so I did no optimization, but rather just doing what I love.