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5318008@lemmy.ml 1 day agoif they make less that’ll suddenly inspire them to do a better job… Where is the common sense there?
If you were a house builder, but you could only live in the typical houses that you’ve built… would that inspire you to do a good job?
If a person’s job is public policy and legislation… but they have to live under typical living conditions for the citizenry… do you think that would be any different than a builder who has to live in the houses they build?
The solution is obviously
No intellectually honest thought starts with this.
If you were a house builder, but you could only live in the typical houses that you’ve built… would that inspire you to do a good job?
I looked into manual labor jobs and it does suck that unless you’re like a foreman or someone who’d been doing it for at least a decade straight, you’re not making as much as you’d think
That’s why I chose the medical field. Which is super fucked up because the people who risk life and limb to build society should be making as much as those who put together limbs and save lives.
If they did get paid more they might be more motivated to do a better job i they’re not already. I think that if you’re not as good as what your job is worth than you should be fired, not pushed upwards. I also think that if a construction worker was paid more they’d start comparing themselves to other professions in the bracket.
Lol, how nice are houses the builders build? Seems to me the builder should’ve built a less shitty home. Especially if they’re a builder. Maybe there’s a reason that one builder isn’t getting paid much because that one builder fucking sucks at being a builder.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean at the end of the day, isn’t it an economic issue and not a government worker issue? That if the common man could afford goods and medical services at the same time… Realistically, it would be through deflating the economy while keeping the pay rate the same to make it so those who are making the median or just a little above can afford groceries and medical bills at the same time and the federal interest rates being lowered to about 1.5% would make it so that mortgages are affordable.
If we’re going to be saying people should be able to afford the bare minimum, than we need to level the economy for the common man and with that we need to adjust the inflation and federal interest rates. Other wise, we’re just bitching about how much someone in a position of power makes.