this can be ameliorated by decoupling dignity from ability
seems like people used to try harder to do this
@Noahpinion's best piece discussed this matter, let me see if I can dig it up
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here we are http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/redistribute-wealth-no-redistribute.html?m=1 …
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anyway trump will continue to win until the problem is solved gl
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This is going to be unpopular, but the fastest way you get to redistributive respect is wage compression. I bet if you look at forklift drivers vs lawyers in say Finland vs the US, you will see higher respect across classes for this reason.
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Average lawyer monthly salary in US: $10,000/mo Average lawyer monthly salary in Finland: $7500/mo The average salary of forklift operator in Finland and US=$2500/mo but the Fins have far more transfers effectively doubling this to $5000/mo
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When you look at a lawyer and forklift driver, they tend to be professions that are highly familial. Fathers take after their sons, mothers after fathers. US system is far more violent in people going up and down the income ladder between generations.
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I would argue that since the Fins are valuing forklift operators so much that that effectively equals their worth to society. You see a lot more intermingling of classes. People are more chill, broadly.
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What do? Not familiar with your econ shorthand. I merely LARP an economist help a brother out.
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in a basic model, wages end up as the value of a marginal product of an hour's work this is quite different from the total value of the stuff produced by a class of workers and massively different from "value" in the more general sense
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if you want to interpret a salary as a meaning of value, you cant go much further than "how much more would we value in monetary terms one more person who produces as much stuff as this one does"
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So we only compare forklift drivers to forklift drivers? Am I translating this correctly?
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