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Ask them all to work for minimum wage or less in those industries. You may get a few zealots they don’t care. Most will switch careers quickly. My wife is a t

Ask them all to work for minimum wage or less in those industries. You may get a few zealots they don’t care. Most will switch careers quickly. My wife is a teacher, and pay is a huge concern for every single one, except for the handful that are rich, and just doing it for the fun of it. I would highly recommend “basic economics” by Thomas Sowell. Will explain how profit motivation leads to people producing more with fewer resources. (efficiency) vs anything else that leads to less efficient use of resources.

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> Ask them all to work for minimum wage or less in those industries. You're introducing an interesting counterpoint but I feel that it's not the question I was attempting to respond to. I was commenting on the matter of huge taxes demotivating everyone from creating anything. I am assuming that any more or less reasonable taxation would either decrease the revenue of everyone or decrease the revenue of most of the members of the wealthier N% of the population (as usual, the richest will somehow manage to avoid most taxes). Do you believe that such a scheme would make your wife leave her career for something less creative/generally useful? > I would highly recommend “basic economics” by Thomas Sowell. Adding to my looong list of books to read, thanks!