>>In an ideal world, everyone doing the same job would make the same amount of money when they start. This is just silly. In the real world there's no such thi

>>In an ideal world, everyone doing the same job would make the same amount of money when they start. This is just silly. In the real world there's no such thing as "the same job," because everyone has different skills, talent, life experience, intentions, work ethic, and a vast array of other factors that play into what they should be paid for the job they do. Paychecks are not magically endless wells that produce validation of human self worth. Paychecks are an exchange of cash for work done on behalf of an employer. People are not interchangeable cogs, each as capable or functional as every other. We are not equal in capacity or capability. Companies are also infinitely variable, so pegging salary to arbitrarily defined job types or categories creates unnecessary inefficiency in a market. It means capable people will be paid less, and less capable people paid more than the value their employment brings to their employer. The West needs a better yardstick for the valuation of human existence than jobs and paychecks.