Squilliam said:
Are you arguing that what you say is 100% true? Then why for example are executives, higher level professors, presidents etc on average taller than the people under them? Does being taller make them more skilled? The worlds leading expert on carburetors doesn't get paid much nowadays since fuel injection came out. So obviously the skillset must also be relevant and in demand? There are many unattractive but otherwise brilliant singers which don't get recording contracts. Why do average students from Harvard/Yale get paid better than brillant students from lesser known universities? An executive is unlikely to be as skilled as a doctorate wielding engineering working for the company, and yet gets paid far more. Furthermore they may be paid more because their effects on their company are greater overall, but why does their seem to be an inverse relationship between paying executives still greater amounts and the performance overall of companies? |
I think you need to re-read my post, I quite clearly stated "People get paid based on the relationship between how rare a skillset is and how many people are willing to pay for the products produced from that skillset"
Beyond this, I think you're heavily focused on the skills that you believe are more valued or important to the position/company and not necessarily the skills that are really important. Consider Brittany Spears, she has always been a worse singer, dancer, with worse songs and (it could be argued) is a less attractive person than many of her rivals, but her ability to remain in the public eye regardless of what she is doing professionally is what makes her so valuable.
