If the skill set you offer is in demand and the pool of people is too small to meet demand you make a lot of money for that skill set. If the skill set you offer doesn’t require much, something that anyone can easily pickup, and the pool of people to pick from is over saturated – you get paid less for that skill set.
In actual reality, instead of hopeful, idealized economic bibble bobble, even skilled or in demand professionals get underpaid because the magical market for labor everyone conjures up in their mind palaces doesn’t actually exist, and corporations collude constantly to suppress wages and even steal them.
Nurses, zookeepers, and game developers are all underpaid despite being skilled and demanding jobs, because people want to work in jobs that help others in clear ways. While telemarketers and bankers are well-paid despite not requiring as much skill, because you have to pay someone a lot to get them to do something evil.
If the skill set you offer is in demand and the pool of people is too small to meet demand you make a lot of money for that skill set. If the skill set you offer doesn’t require much, something that anyone can easily pickup, and the pool of people to pick from is over saturated – you get paid less for that skill set.
This isn’t true in practice.
In actual reality, instead of hopeful, idealized economic bibble bobble, even skilled or in demand professionals get underpaid because the magical market for labor everyone conjures up in their mind palaces doesn’t actually exist, and corporations collude constantly to suppress wages and even steal them.
This is correct. Almost no one is making what they should be, and we know where that money’s gone instead.
“The Economy”.
The bourgeoisie
What about business owner or landlord?
What kind of skill is it to just be rich and have everyone else do the work for you?
Nurses, zookeepers, and game developers are all underpaid despite being skilled and demanding jobs, because people want to work in jobs that help others in clear ways. While telemarketers and bankers are well-paid despite not requiring as much skill, because you have to pay someone a lot to get them to do something evil.