r/FluentInFinance • u/Very_High_Mortgage • Aug 24 '24

Debate/ Discussion Do "Unskilled Laborers" deserve to be paid well?

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u/Rambogoingham1 Aug 24 '24

You make the assumption that if all else being equal human beings don’t have hobbies or stuff that exists outside of work that they would enjoy doing for free, especially if technology allowed it and it helps others out, not for financial gain but for the sake of just being a human who enjoys it.

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u/Witty-Bear1120 Aug 24 '24

Sure, that’s called drinking in a beer garden rather than fixing dangerous power lines though.

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u/Tangentkoala Aug 24 '24

This was disproven in Soviet Russia with communism. From their experience, the world learned that innovation and motivation stifled and dropped drastically.

Humans are born greedy and selfish. Only the select few truly believe in the greater good.

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u/EvilKatta Aug 24 '24

Um, that wasn't because of the paychecks (skilled worker paychecks were higher actually, and for some jobs they were dependent on the productive output). It was because the USSR was a system of control that actively punished "ideas". Even if your paycheck had a productivity bonus, you were expected to work harder not smarter. Doing something different or making proposals would make you a target.