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Society does not owe you a high salary for your low-skilled job with plenty of competition. We tried it - it was called Communism and the society went broke while the workers went hungry. It was worst for both.


The term "low-skilled" was just invented by economists to justify low wages. I challenge you to spend a day doing something you consider low-skilled next to someone who has spent years in the job and at the end of the day compare your results. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-019-10001-y


> Society does not owe you a high salary for your low-skilled job with plenty of competition. We tried it - it was called Communism and the society went broke while the workers went hungry. It was worst for both.

I didn't say any of that. I was commenting on the assertion that "today's situation favours the employee in most fields". Which is demonstrably untrue for many people.

And I was also implicitly asserting that society should create the conditions for all workers to be treated decently, whether or not they receive a high salary.


Creating those decent conditions costs money, implying in effect a higher reward, even if not in salary form.




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