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This doesn't add up. In "the real world" a programmer making less at a different company would take that 3rd role.
by dgfitz 5y ago
This doesn't add up. In "the real world" a programmer making less at a different company would take that 3rd role.
- missedthecue 5y agoImagine in the world, there are 105 million programmer jobs and 100 million programmers. Companies can raise wages, but theyre only poaching from other companies.
- dgfitz 5y agoAnd now we know why programmers make the salaries they do!
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoYes, so the most valuable 100 million jobs get done, the least valuable 5 million don't. Meanwhile, people who can't currently complete the job are incentivized to learn how to do it by rising wages so the overall supply gradually rises. That's how free markets are supposed to work.
- missedthecue 5y agoOk but to the point of our discussion, most of the jobs currently available aren't jobs that require training. There are 5 million people that just stopped working.
- dgfitz 5y agoYeah, because the pay isn't high enough
- missedthecue 5y agoCan you explain to me how not working and making $0 per hour affords one a higher standard of living than working and making say $15 an hour, which plenty of retail and service jobs are starting at today? I don't logically understand how someone can complain about pay being too low when working at all would be a huge raise from their current income.