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The thing is, if you feel you're being paid too little for your work there are basically 3 reasons: 1 - you are wrong because you're not that good 2 - you are
by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
The thing is, if you feel you're being paid too little for your work there are basically 3 reasons:
1 - you are wrong because you're not that good
2 - you are right, but the overhead necessary for the company to survive does not allow them to pay you as much
3 - you are right and they are exploiting you
The way to prove case 1 wrong is to start your own business or consultancy and earn more money than you did before. But to prove 2 or 3 you would have to create a very similar company and prove it can successfully operate while earning the employees much more money, which would be very difficult.
- kerkeslager 4y agoIf, as you say, "there are basically 3 reasons", then disproving 1 should be sufficient to prove that 2 or 3 is true. You're just trying to place an unreasonable burden of proof on possibilities you disagree with. There is no difference between possibilities 2 and 3. If the overhead necessary for a company to survive doesn't allow them to pay their workers, the company shouldn't survive. Mysteriously, companies that underpay their workers always have money to pay their execs and shareholders--you're just expecting workers to pay the overhead instead of the people at the top. All this is, is a shitty excuse for exploiting workers. As for proving 1 incorrect: whenever essential workers unionize--analogous to starting their own consultancy--money suddenly materializes to pay them more. As it turns out, essential workers are essential, and the only reason they get paid less is that the people at the top can pay them less and keep more money for themselves.