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No, just that a sense of happiness is a relative measure. Do you think you'd be happier earning 50K when everyone else is earning 25K, or 100K where everyone el
by lr4444lr 5y ago
No, just that a sense of happiness is a relative measure. Do you think you'd be happier earning 50K when everyone else is earning 25K, or 100K where everyone else is earning 200K? Everyone believes he is the latter, but in reality, over time, the former group people probably are happier, I wager.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoIt’s not really about the dollar amounts. It’s the fact that my employer is using an information asymmetry to arbitrage my labor. Here’s an analogy. Say I wait tables at a restaurant. If I discover my boss has been skimming off my tips, I’m going to be upset — even if I was perfectly happy with my pay before I learned that.
- lr4444lr 5y agoNot comparable. That's outright wage theft, not informational asymmetry.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoWhat do you think wage theft is? If you’re getting paid half as much as someone else doing the same job, I’d call that “outright wage theft” too.
- lr4444lr 5y agoThat's a negotiation you were disadvantaged in: not something you can literally be sued for in court, and possibly even face criminal charges for.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoThat's not really germane to the discussion though. The only reason you can be sued or charged for skimming tips is that we decided to make a law against it. It has nothing to do with whether they're comparable in a moral sense.
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