The Law of Unintended Consequences Will Kick You In The Balls Every Time

[Pat Mustard]

Flight instructors tend to make about $20 per flight hour.

I shudder to think I may have flown on a plane with a pilot who was taught by someone making $20 an hour.

You probably flew on a plane at some stage where the pilot had to pay for his breakfast cereal with food stamps, given the official US attitude to a fair day's pay for a fair day's work.

The problem with pay at the moment is that those who add the most value to a good or service (i.e. those at the bottom up to middle management) get paid less than what their value to the company is, whereas those who add the least value to a good or service (i.e. those at the top, in big companies*) get paid completely out of proportion to the value they bring to to the company.

*I'll exclude small companies as their structures can be a lot different than bigger entities, with the owner or senior manager often working in a very hands on situation, and more than those under them.