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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Wait, MattyC, are you suggesting that there's no connection between the market rate for a specific type of work and whether someone "earned" that market rate? Because to a large extent, the market rate is what it is either because relatively few people can do the job (in which case you've "earned" it by becoming one of those relatively few people, though granted your biology and upbringing have something to do with that in many cases) or because relatively few people WANT to do the job, in which case you're clearly earning the market rate.
Maybe you meant something different and I didn't understand.
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I'm not suggesting there's no connection. People who work high-demand jobs that require significant skill certainly earn the right to have more than someone who does not. But the difference isn't in the 100s or 1000s of times.
As for the relatively few WANT to do said job, I call BS on that. While there are some jobs that pay better because the job is less desirable (working up north in AB for instance, or plumbers), most undesirable jobs do not. Garbage men, fast food workers, janitors, etc... No one wants those jobs, and the people doing them are not paid premiums because of it.
Conversely, people that work high demand jobs that require significant skill don't necessarily get paid more than those who don't. And the idea of what a significant skill is is also up to interpretation. Someone who works with placing foster children and dealing with domestic abuse issues and what not, IMO, requires interpersonal skills that are non-existent in a lot of people. Those workers went through the same amount of time to get a 4 year degree as an engineering student. So why are their average salaries so different? The market is what is making up a large portion of that difference.