| Ail said: I spent 8 years in school and I sure don't want lazy people like you to make as much as me... Like you are trying to explain to us, the less you make, the better my higher alary makes me feel... There, does it make you feel any better ?
I didn't think so...( and even if this is sarcasm, I have spent significant more years in school than you and I do make significantly more...) |
Well, I wouldn't call myself lazy, just because I didn't put in as much time as you. An engineer isn't "lazier" than a doctor just because a doctor went to med school for 5 years on top of undergrad. But there's a difference between different careers/occupations that take work to attain....and doing no work at all being needed to acquire your job.
And people making less than me doesn't make me "feel better" about my higher paying job. People with low skills working low skill jobs making less than me lets me know that my hard work paid off. How would you feel if a fry cook made as much as you? 8 years of school? I'd assume you were a doctor, nurse, something medical maybe? How would you feel if people were demanding the same wage as you, without all the years of school, examinations, rotations, and debt? How would you feel if some high school drop out with 2 kids was demanding the same wage as you because "I need to take care of my family" but didn't put in nearly the amount of work you put in to allow yourself to take care of your family on your own? Your pay grade should reflect the work you put in to earn a job that pays that wage. Flipping burgers =/= engineering, IT, data analysis, medical, account management, etc. So why are you compassionate for people trying to make it that way? Why are you showing animosity to people saying "a job that takes no training and can be done by a high schooler shouldn't be paid the same as a job requiring high skills"? People wanna say that it'd help the single mothers out there, but at the end of the day, it still holds true that a job that takes no training and can be done by a high schooler shouldn't have the same pay as a job that requires higher skills. Whether it be by keeping minimum wage the same or increasing higher skilled jobs' pay (eventually resulting in the same disparity we see now), it makes no logical sense to say that putting canned goods on a shelf is as fulfilling and lucrative a job as a SQL Specialist.
And you don't get a hard on because people make less than you. I don't care at all that people make less than me, quite frankly. But don't sit here and tell me that hard work is basically useless. Because that's what you're essentially trying to get at. No sane person would choose to take years to acquire skills to get a well paying job...if they could get a similar paying job doing absolutely nothing to earn it other than putting your name on a piece of paper (that's how grocery store, fast food, etc job applications are. No resumes, no references, no work history, just your name, address, and phone number)
