Re:Kitchen worker becomes part-owner of top restaurant
by gambiting on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @05:12PM
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Sure. But it's a supply and demand problem. It's hard to find a competent programmer, so you have to pay more to attract one, or they are going to work somewhere else. But it's easy to find someone to clean the floors, so even if you offer very low wage that is going to discourage some people, there will be others who will take it. It has nothing to do with value they provide.
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Re:Kitchen worker becomes part-owner of top restaurant
by danbruc on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @05:24PM
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Exactly, this exploits an imbalance between supply and demand. You pay low wages for getting your office cleaned because you can get away with it, not because cleaning the office provides no value. This is what I want fixed and the market is empirically unable to it itself.