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That does not mean it's more useful than being able to drive a car properly.

It's pure capitalism I get it. I like capitalism okay ? I live in a socialist corrupt hellhole.

Even if it's harder that does not mean it's more useful than to drive car properly.

That's why the rich countries are outsourcing to cheaper countries so much.

How do you justify 150k salary in US vs 25k salary in India ? Different costs of living ? Yes and no. In many poor countries some stuff is just more expensive than in the richer ones.

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"Even if it's harder that does not mean it's more useful than to drive car properly."

It's more useful TO THE BUYER. That's why the buyer TRADES MORE MONEY for it.

No one cares what third parties think about "value" or "difficulty" or "justification".

>How do you justify 150k salary in US vs 25k salary in India ? Different costs of living ? Yes and no. In many poor countries some stuff is just more expensive than in the richer ones.

What people are willing to work for.

If nobody in India was willing to do the job for $25k annual salary - they would need to be offered more to do the job. Flat out, that simple. It turns out that there are many people willing to do the job for the lower pay - because it beats other options available to them.

On the other side of the coin - fewer people would take the job in the U.S if it wasn't $150k/yr salary. They'd walk to another offer that they feel is worth their time because the offer doesn't beat other options available to them.

I'm actually surprised people are asked to justify why harder jobs should be paid more.

Someone considering that they deserve the same as someone else for doing and easier job is a kind of entitlement. I'd like to see someone justify that.

>Someone considering that they deserve the same as someone else for doing and easier job is a kind of entitlement. I'd like to see someone justify that.

I'd like to see someone provide a reason why anyone would pick the "harder" jobs if they were paid the same.

If I could choose between a job digging and filling holes all day or a job where all I do is play video games - I'm not sure many holes would be dug. Extend this to hundreds of "easy" jobs and hundreds of "hard" jobs and it makes one wonder how many jobs requiring physical or repetitive labor wouldn't exist.

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