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Have you tried being a delivery driver?
by xenospn 3y ago
Have you tried being a delivery driver?
- IAmGraydon 3y agoSo tired of hearing this nonsense reply. How physically taxing a job is doesn’t determine its value.
- jckahn 3y agoHave you tried living without delivery drivers?
- IAmGraydon 3y agoNot the point, and you clearly have a loose grip on economics. Have you tried living without water? No? Would you pay $170,000 per year for it?
- quickthrower2 3y ago/remind me 2050
- danbruc 3y agoValue is what people are willing to pay but that is not what should primarily determine prices, they should be primarily determined by the costs of production. That is what competition is for, driving the profits to zero and the prices towards production costs. The value of water is very high, people would pay any price because otherwise they would die of thirst. The price on the other hand is low because the costs of production are low. The explanation why the price reflect the costs and not the value in this case, you can pick on your own, maybe competition, maybe the expectation of people with pitchforks if you try to get rich by selling water for $100 per liter, maybe regulations, ... probably a combination of several things.
- freetime2 3y agoSure it does. It limits the supply of people who are willing and able to perform the job, which increases the market value of those who are.
- whelp_24 3y agoI mean, if no one is willing to do a job then you have to pay more for it. That's why dangerous jobs have hazard pay. And since you can't do a physical job for a long as a white collar job, you need more money to compensate.
- cristiancavalli 3y agoTo rephrase: “The supply of workers available should not determine how a job is compensated.” Would you like to reconfigure your statement such that it doesn’t violate the basic law of supply and demand based on your arbitrary system of valuing labor?