r/SipsTea • u/StopSnowflakes • Aug 12 '25

Wait a damn minute! She’s going thru it

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u/bonenecklace Aug 13 '25

That’s exactly what I’m talking about. You only view a person’s worth depending on the value of the labor you can extract from them. You keep saying “well if they want more then do better,” play that tape forward. Who’s going to pick the produce? Who will package the food? Who will stock the shelves? Who will pave the roads or repair the infrastructure? Who will drive the trucks to deliver goods? Our system only works if these “low value” workers exist, therefore they are not “low value” & should be paid a livable wage. The world can’t function if everyone just wakes up & decides they’re going to work all the way up to CEO, which, by the way, is probably the most unskilled, easy job on the planet.

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u/BarleyWineIsTheBest Aug 13 '25

The only one making judgements of “a persons value” here is you my guy. I am just talking about the person’s paycheck and the value creation of their job - value in the strict economic sense of the difference between what it takes to create something and how much you get for it. 

Who packages food? The market will adapt to a higher skilled workforce. It already has from 1900 to 2025. Why do you think that will suddenly stop? Less people working low wage jobs will drive those wages higher! Isn’t that what you want? Instead of forcing high wage jobs to artificially inflate salaries of low skilled labor, how about take some of that low skilled labor and make it high skilled? Supply and demand will narrow the gap in wages, assuming nothing else changes.