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Why Garbagemen Should Earn More Than Bankers

Bamby

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Lots of people are capable of being garbagemen, but not everyone has the skills to be a parasitic financial criminal.

I agree.

But imagine, for instance, that all of Washington’s 100,000 lobbyists were to go on strike tomorrow. Or that every tax accountant in Manhattan decided to stay home. It seems unlikely the mayor would announce a state of emergency. In fact, it’s unlikely that either of these scenarios would do much damage. A strike by, say, social media consultants, telemarketers, or high-frequency traders might never even make the news at all.

When it comes to garbage collectors, though, it’s different. Any way you look at it, they do a job we can’t do without. And the harsh truth is that an increasing number of people do jobs that we can do just fine without. Were they to suddenly stop working the world wouldn’t get any poorer, uglier, or in any way worse. Take the slick Wall Street traders who line their pockets at the expense of another retirement fund. Take the shrewd lawyers who can draw a corporate lawsuit out until the end of days. Or take the brilliant ad writer who pens the slogan of the year and puts the competition right out of business.

Instead of creating wealth, these jobs mostly just shift it around...

Read the entire article (it is excellent): Why Garbagemen Should Earn More Than Bankers.
 

Snowtrac Nome

member formerly known as dds
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kind of funny in this society it seems the less labor your work requires the less you are worth
 

bczoom

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kind of funny in this society it seems the less labor your work requires the less you are worth
Don't know what it has to do with labor but I'd say it's more of what do your efforts generate and is said effort a gain to anyone but yourself. If it's a one way gain going from yourself and those up the ladder, you're probably not much of a contributing part of society.
 
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