There are some jobs that are very low-status, and consequently well-paid. That’s a Coasian bargain, where status-insensitive but money-sensitive people select into them. Which means that raising the status of those jobs harms the people who do them.
I'm not assuming that! The market clears, one way or another. ("I wanted to get paid in status, but instead I got extra job security!")
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Even if I grant that premise, it's not an instant or frictionless process.
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Of course. Life is certainly not Econ 101.
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