The difficulty with which people work is almost completely unrelated to the amount they get paid to do so.
Again, this is a very, very wealthy country. There is no reason why everyone should not have the education they need to reach their maximum potential, or have a decent place to live and enough food to eat.
Instead. we piss away vast fortunes on unwanted aircraft carrriers, unspeakably expensive aircraft that no one needs, and war after war after war.
And all the increase in productivity we have had in the last ten years went to the top 1%, which none of you Republicans will ever join.
If you reverse each of these points I would be a bit more in agreement.
Republicans and non-republicans , there ater a lot of Americans that don't want to get ahead by robbing the rich.
The difficulty of a job is one of several factors that determines how much it is worth, if difficulty was the sole determinant no one would make much more than waitresses.
Investment and education and preparation are the reason that Plumbers make more than Carpet layers and doctors(MD) make more than Secretary's.
A Merchant decides what his own pay should be, Warren Buffet has done almost nothing all his life but buy and sell and advise on buying and selling.
Champion athletes make much or little depending mostly on the size of the fan base. If you can throw a strike twenty times in a row you are worth a lot because there are a lot of fans of baseball, or less if the strikes are in a bowling alley, not because the skill is less, but because the contributors are fewer.
Worst of all , is the civil servant whose pay depends literally on acts of congress and the pleasure of the president. I have had one raise in the last six years , and it wasn't a big one.
Should the government be deciding what people should be making and keeping?
My personal experience doesn't lead me to recommend it.
