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All the money you make based on work is really free-riding on earlier investments in knowledge anyway. Why should you make $100/hr just because you did some st
by pcthrowaway 3y ago
All the money you make based on work is really free-riding on earlier investments in knowledge anyway.
Why should you make $100/hr just because you did some studying 10 years ago? If you do a week of work, you should just be paid for that week of work, not for your 10 years of past experience and your week of work, right?
It seems like you're taking a pretty weird stance against market economics, made more strange by not proposing socialist/egalitarian policies as a potential improvement ("I have a problem with making money without doing any work")
- danbruc 3y agoI already got paid for the past ten years. If you had to attend university to get ready for your job, then you can have a bit more to compensate for that time without income. I have nothing against market economics in general, I would welcome competitors driving those outsized profits down. When I say everyone should earn roughly the same, then this is what I think would be a desirable state, but in this case market dynamics are unlikely to yield this result because not everyone can switch to doing every possible job for all kinds of reasons. This is what makes unskilled jobs pay relatively bad despite this work being important and often hard or unpleasant, but the mechanism to change that, leaving for better payed higher skilled jobs to reduce supply is just not available to many. So I would think that I am in general in favor of market dynamics, but it has to be a working market.