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Some common arguments for the wealth inequality: The surgeon will have spent many years studying while the street cleaner can just get started tomorrow. The s
by riffraff 5y ago
Some common arguments for the wealth inequality:
The surgeon will have spent many years studying while the street cleaner can just get started tomorrow.
The surgeon has responsibilities the cleaner does not.
Finally, given equal pay, people may not want to do unpleasant jobs: I'd rather be a poet than a trash collector.
But on the other hand it's somewhat hard to justify someone earning many orders of magnitude more than others.
- arcticbull 5y ago> The surgeon will have spent many years studying while the street cleaner can just get started tomorrow. Indeed but if it is paid for by the government then what difference does it make? I would rather work my ass off as a SWE than collect garbage even if I'm getting paid the same amount, however that's just me. I suspect it's you too, if you're honest with yourself. As as for poetry, this is my argument for UBI. Go for it, IMO, poetry has societal value. > The surgeon has responsibilities the cleaner does not. [edit] This is true, and also a surgeon generates value through the people they save. I can get behind that. Thanks for entertaining my thought exercise :)
- readthenotes1 5y ago"As as for poetry, this is my argument for UBI. Go for it, IMO, poetry has societal value." I am a poet on the dole. I tell you, it is good for the soul. I forego prosody for perspicacity, smoke your weed and blow profundity. You could be me if you dared. Give poet your tax money, you declared.
- arcticbull 5y agoBased on that poem alone, I consider my tax dollars well spent. Cheers.