(March 10, 2016 at 1:26 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I think that people are so far removed from the one that they really have no idea what's involved. They, maybe, planted a tomato in their yard once and they think "hell, this isn't so hard". No, that's not very hard. It's not farming, though. Farming is the thing that people with lots of money leaning on -many- degrees..both their own and entire universities of others, do.
This is true, and why I didn't want to touch that analogy. The basics of farming are pretty simple, but that doesn't mean any idiot can be good at it. Put me on a farm and tell me to produce a yield, and I'd be lost.
Quote:Even when it comes to doctors, the water is muddy....it's easy to imagine that the job is "worth more", in some sense, than another. OTOH, I;d worry more about my health and wellbeing if all of our sanitation workers (read:trashmen) went on strike than if all our doctors went on strike. 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.
That goes into another aspect of the debate. Should compensation be reliant on the difficulty and knowledge requirements of a job? The physical or mental demands of the job? The job's role in allowing a stable, functional and advanced society to function?
I think we can all agree that a doctor is a more vital job than a burger flipper, overall, and deserves very good compensation, but should that mean the burger flipper doesn't deserve a living wage? That's not an argument that makes sense to me.
