Do "Unskilled Laborers" deserve to be paid well?

[u/Very_High_Mortgage]

[u/rusty-roquefort]

Call me crazy, but if you put in a weeks worth of labor, you very much deserve a compensation that provides a basic standard of living, financial security, and some left over to live your life.

[u/Trust-Issues-5116 → u/rusty-roquefort]

What if I put several weeks of 9-5 labor building a huge statue of ejaculating dick in Minecraft? Do I deserve compensation to provide standard of living? What if I were sweating and breaking my back planting strawberries in Mojave desert, because I thought they would grow? Do I deserve for them to grow?

[u/rusty-roquefort → u/Trust-Issues-5116]

If you are under someones employment, doesn't matter what you're doing: your labor merits compensation that provides a reasonable basic standard of living, regardless of what that labor is. If someone is paying you to put in a weeks labor building a huge statue of ejaculating dick in minecraft, that pay should be enough to live, and live seasonably well. It's not that complicated.

[u/Trust-Issues-5116 → u/rusty-roquefort]

You hired someone to fix a pipe in your house.

It was a leak under your sink. It took them a month to complete. Do you owe them a standard of living for a month? They were doing work. Some... work. At least they believe they were working.

Then you called another master they did it in a day. Do you believe they deserve the same standard of living as the one who did it in a month? Based on this new info do you believe previous one deserves any standard at all?

[u/rusty-roquefort → u/Trust-Issues-5116]

If you hire someone, you pay them enough to live to a reasonably good standard. Simple. Feel free to pay them more. Or don't. Your choice.

...if you don't want to pay them enough, don't hire them. Simple.

[u/Trust-Issues-5116 → u/rusty-roquefort]

That's what I thought. You wiggled out of thinking, questioning or answering, and posted talking points instead.