Re:Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of soc...
by humanrebar on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:30AM
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> nobody is there to dig ditches
Nobody shovels horse feces or lights lamps anymore.
Also, these problems (not enough ditch diggers) are solved by just paying people more for that kind of work. Culturally we think that managers up the chain deserve to get paid more and more, but if there's a shortage of people scrubbing toilets, maybe the person with clean fingernails merely cutting paychecks doesn't necessarily warrant a higher market rate.
Nobody shovels horse feces or lights lamps anymore.
Also, these problems (not enough ditch diggers) are solved by just paying people more for that kind of work. Culturally we think that managers up the chain deserve to get paid more and more, but if there's a shortage of people scrubbing toilets, maybe the person with clean fingernails merely cutting paychecks doesn't necessarily warrant a higher market rate.