Because you want to be a doctor, and use medicine to prolong and improve people's lives?
Do you really value money that much, that it would guide major life decisions (like how you spend your life)?
Do you really value money that much, that it would guide major life decisions (like how you spend your life)?
If I am backstopped by a home and food near my family and they are too, I won't be as motivated by riches. The entire reason I even need money is to buy a home and to build retirement funds... anything else is a toy (and in Western countries is probably trivially cheap compared to housing).
What that means is that I have much more freedom to do whatever I want to do. If I want to be a bin man or a doctor or a truck driver or a car salesman... whatever; I have much more autonomy to follow my dreams in a system that does not mean I live paycheck to paycheck doing half of those jobs.
Right now, I don't have a home, and so it is basically irrational (given that I don't want to be nomadic and leave my family behind) for me to take lower paying jobs ever. This is really a stupid situation to be in; it means that capitalism almost decides what I spend my entire life doing without me having that much free choice (choosing to be poor is not a valid choice).
Look, I appreciate what you all are saying and your noble intent--I just don't see this working in the US at all. The "American dream" of hard work as a path to wealth and comfort is practically built into the DNA of every new immigrant upon landing in our country.
a) The unskilled will choose to clean airports anyway. They can't get a job as a doctor and they want to buy toys (TV, smartphone, holiday, etc). Equivalent salary does not mean that jobs are just as accessible - academic positions tend towards min wage, but the working classes aren't scrambling for those because they are locked out via credentials or lack of education in general.
b) If clean airports require exploiting the poor (basically, relying on the fact that people will starve and die or suffer mental illness if they don't do it), then maybe we shouldn't have clean airports.
I think that part of what makes some jobs so crap is the fact that employers know that their employees are reliant. Senior management jobs are cushy precisely because people have FU money and can just leave. This should be expanded.