• DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Same with people saying they don’t want trash collectors to earn the same amount of money as a doctor or whatever high paying job. Why the fuck do you care.

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      i mean as long as resources are limited it seems fair that people who had to put in a lot more work to get to a position where they can do their jobs should be rewarded more. And why wouldnt u care if u are an engineer or doctor or whatever whu wouldn’t u want to be rewarded for the effort u put in, and as far as i know all past and present socialist countries pay their doctors and engineers and the like more.

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        My problem here is not that the doctor makes more money than a trash collector. My problem is that people immediately start kicking down the ladder to prevent others from getting better pay and what not. Often they say it’s because things like collecting trash are low skilled jobs and that therefore they need to get the bare minimum etc. Until the trash collectors strike and their bag of plastic shit doesn’t het picked up for a week.

        The problem is putting the blame on others as people so often tend to do.

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        10 months ago

        it seems fair that people who had to put in a lot more work to get to a position where they can do their jobs should be rewarded more.

        This is true. However, the clarity of this statement gets muddied with the disparity in privilege and opportunity.

        An individual born into wealth has to put effort into passing medical school, while an individual born into poverty has to put the same amount of effort into just surviving and still may never be able to afford medical school.

        And yet the latter may have had a prodigious talent for medicine that will never be uncovered.

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        The point is doctors and whatever should see the rising wages of less specialized work and demand more for themselves, not demand that everyone else stop getting raises.