Let me bring this a bit back to were we - or I - started. My point is that I consider it unfair that wages are hugely different between low-skilled work and high-skilled work even if both require similar amounts of work. This only works because the market exploits an imbalance between supply and demanded low-skilled work and is empirically unable to correct this imbalance, for whatever reasons.

We of course need some differences in wages to steer the market to match supply and demand and to encourage better education. I certainly have no desire for a society where everyone is happy flipping burgers because it pays good money. But as long as there is low-skilled work to be done, I want those workers to be compensate for the work they are doing, not punished because of an excess in available work power.

I also hope that people doing low-skilled work would still strive for better education for the sake of it and to become a »better« human, no matter if it is required for the job or not. And they could do this more easily if they did not have to work three jobs to survive. Finally higher wages for low-skilled workers would also encourage automation and therefore reduce the amount of work humans have to do while not reducing the wealth.