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    eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Oct 2020

    eigenrobot Retweeted Byrne Hobart

    this is also true of disgusting jobs, and dangerous jobshttps://twitter.com/ByrneHobart/status/1318689922396622848 …

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    Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart
    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.
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    • \\GNOME WARRIOR |Fistlosopher| MODE// R.P. Megathread Meathead YUNG ARTHRITIS Vuulthuryol stupid twitt account r ā̛ s David Baird zywiec
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      1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Oct 2020

        although its also true that there's enough selection into these jobs that the wage premium usually gets bid down to not much @ByrneHobart saw this at a seminar once

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      2. UcKema - Christmas train to Miami‏ @uckema 20 Oct 2020
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        Ie electrical is odd in that it pays well on the high end but its dangerous on the high end

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      3. abe‏ @agmagyar 20 Oct 2020
        Replying to @uckema @eigenrobot

        Sure a lineman dangling out of a helicopter can make six figures sure but so can a master electrician with a couple journeyman wiring new builds all day

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      2. Richard Bibeault‏ @Duderichy 20 Oct 2020
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        Sometimes I wonder if I’m better off competing against a bunch of smart software engineers, or in a field where there’s probably significantly less competition. Is it better to be more competent in a field with less competent people, or more competent surrounded by competent...

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Oct 2020
        Replying to @Duderichy

        if you can get in your competence grows pretty quickly ime

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      1. Anarcho-Moses  🐍‏ @ben_r_hoffman 20 Oct 2020
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        The Meta-Class War Hypothesis: Any time a currency (e.g. $, status) is reallocated on the basis of group membership, wealth & power are reallocated from people trying to survive through trade, to those who try to be taken care of through their identity.

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      1. Rob McMillin‏ @scareduck 21 Oct 2020
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        And generally, we call these people “men”.

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