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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (791339)6/23/2014 6:10:16 PM
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Skills pay ... always have.

You want income equality? Pay everyone according to the education or training it took to acquire the skills they use on the job, factor in the rigor of training not just seat time.

So lets see... a fast food worker spends about 30 minutes in training at a fairly low level of rigor in the training course. So should they be paid the equivalency of the job value for the first thirty minutes of a college freshman intro course ... value = nothing. Ok the fast food worker is worth more because they actually were shown how to do something of value. It doesn't equate well to highly skilled professions like plumbers, electricians, or machinists who don't actually become valued until they've spent years in apprenticeships. Then there are highly skilled academic professions like Doctors, Lawyers, Business managers and such.

Skills pay, or should. Entitlements are a cop out.

America's Skilled Trades Dilemma: Shortages Loom As Most-In-Demand Group Of Workers Ages
forbes.com
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