Trump versus Clinton?

[abaris]

Sure, people will pay whatever they'll pay, and people will accept whatever wage they'll accept...but to imagine there's some profound underlying logic or demonstrable scale that justifies the disparity between farmers and coders, doctors and trashmen.......well, gl with that.

It's also not what Marx and Engels had in mind. As usual, people lean on everyone's equal with equal pay and equal rights or obligations. That's what has been hammered into their heads for decades. But all they asked for was workers actually profiting from what they produce. Getting their fair share of the means of production. They also said that everyone should persue a career of their liking and do what they are best suited for. Total equality was never the goal.

Even in the communist countries of old, although they weren't really communist and didn't even claim to be, equality never was on the forefront. Doctors still earned more than workers. Probably not as much as in the West, even in comparison to living standards, but still enough to purchase their own small luxuries. Eve within the system.