You’re missing the part of the picture: There are also workers with specific skill sets who are paid extremely well. You don’t hear about them, because they don’t complain.
But the question is why? Why workers with certain skills really well paid, while others aren’t?
The answer is misalignment between availability of types of work, and availability of workers with appropriate skills.
There’s no magic solution that would fix this - core issue is education system that produces surplus of one type of skilled workers and not enough of other types. The end result are huge wages for rare skills, and very low wages for common ones
Fixing that problem requires radical reform of how people pick their career patch and it would take many years for benefits to have impact.
No, I’m saying people need to be paid a living wage to keep the social peace. You may externalize that responsibility from your enterprise, but someone is going to have to address the mismatch between wages and cost of living.
You want an economy that rewards the 10% best, that is good I guess…but the inevitable 90% of “losers” that are still essential for production will get out of your control if you keep punishing them and forcing them into a race they never win (particularly when the social elevator breaks and poverty becomes transgenerational)
someone is going to have to address the mismatch between wages and cost of living.
Everything in “Cost of living” basket is delivered by the same economy that tends towards reduction of prices - assuming it’s healthy competitive market. I believe that at least in case of US, housing market and Healthcare are particularly corrupted, which drags prices up.
but the inevitable 90% of “losers”
I don’t believe there are 90% of “losers” if you said bottom 10-20% earners in the society, I’d might agree - there’s always some percentage of people who can’t make the ends meet.
You’re missing the part of the picture: There are also workers with specific skill sets who are paid extremely well. You don’t hear about them, because they don’t complain.
But the question is why? Why workers with certain skills really well paid, while others aren’t?
The answer is misalignment between availability of types of work, and availability of workers with appropriate skills.
There’s no magic solution that would fix this - core issue is education system that produces surplus of one type of skilled workers and not enough of other types. The end result are huge wages for rare skills, and very low wages for common ones
Fixing that problem requires radical reform of how people pick their career patch and it would take many years for benefits to have impact.
No, I’m saying people need to be paid a living wage to keep the social peace. You may externalize that responsibility from your enterprise, but someone is going to have to address the mismatch between wages and cost of living.
You want an economy that rewards the 10% best, that is good I guess…but the inevitable 90% of “losers” that are still essential for production will get out of your control if you keep punishing them and forcing them into a race they never win (particularly when the social elevator breaks and poverty becomes transgenerational)
Everything in “Cost of living” basket is delivered by the same economy that tends towards reduction of prices - assuming it’s healthy competitive market. I believe that at least in case of US, housing market and Healthcare are particularly corrupted, which drags prices up.
I don’t believe there are 90% of “losers” if you said bottom 10-20% earners in the society, I’d might agree - there’s always some percentage of people who can’t make the ends meet.