You are paid what you are worth, (most of the time.)

Let me count the ways:
1. You are NOT entitled to a job. You have to EARN the job. That means a job has to be open, you have to have the skills to perform that job and you have to be the best candidate for that job.
2. You are NOT entitled to that bullshit "living wage" which only exists in unicorn dwelling unemployed diploma mill grads. You live on what you make. If you want more, you have to work harder and smarter for more.
3. You are NOT entitled to make money based on how hard you work. You could slave in the sun, day after day, making mud pies. You wouldn't be worth a cent. PERIOD.
4. Your pay is based on you reaching a VOLUNTARY agreement with an employer. He wants you to work for free, or a dollar a day. You want to work for $100 a minute, with six months vacation and five Rolls Royces for a car allowance. Your pay is where you and the employer meet somewhere in the middle.
5. The best example of this in the real world is a hospital. A heart surgeon makes more money than the janitor. That's because the heart surgeon's skill is more valuable than that of a janitor.
6. The ONLY time you are paid more than you are worth is a situation created by minimum wage. (Or if you are on WELFARE.) If you are a total bozo, the state has mandated that you not be paid what you are worth, if it is a penny an hour, but rather a minimum amount. Of course, those who are REALLY stupid and incompetent are never hired if their skills are worth less than the minimum wage.

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paulio · M

you can earn more money in rich areas where there are less workers to do menial jobs, so gardeners ,cleaners carers can charge double the rate of somewhere else,supply and demand

Reason10 · 61-69, M

@paulio @paulio [quote]you can earn more money in rich areas where there are less workers to do menial jobs, so gardeners ,cleaners carers can charge double the rate of somewhere else,supply and demand[/quote]

Exactly. Supply and demand are what it's all about.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@paulio But your money will go less far because of inflated rents/property prices, or because you will have to commute a long distance because you can't afford to live where you work. Not an efficient economic situation.

Reason10 · 61-69, M

@SunshineGirl [quote]But your money will go less far because of inflated rents/property prices, or because you will have to commute a long distance because you can't afford to live where you work. Not an efficient economic situation.[/quote]'

Once again, a lowly Florida substitute teacher has to educate you on the simplest of Economics.

1. There is no such thing as inflated rents or property taxes. In real estate (and I know this because I got a Florida real estate license, and discovered a few years later I didn't like sales as a career) the concept is called SITUS. That means location is everything.

Probably in your back woods part of the country, a mobile home could cost around $50,000 for a two bedroom, one bath. Model. And you probably would be paying maybe $100 a month in lot rent.

That same mobile home in Key West Florida, land included would be well over a MILLION DOLLARS. It's about LOCATION. And there's nothing inflated about LOCATION. If more people want to live in a LOCATION, then the land will cost more and that makes the property cost more. East of Ft. Myers, FL is a lower working class neighborhood called Lehigh Acres. A lot of people live there because it's cheap. Contrast that with the homes on the Gulf of Mexico, in Sanibel, Captiva, or Naples on the water.

2. As far as commuting, New Yorkers have been doing that for generations. Long Island (which now is REALLY expensive to live in) used to be the affordable suburbs for people who couldn't afford a one room MILLION DOLLAR CONDO in Manhattan, but still had a job in the city.

Just a guess, but maybe you've never actually had a real job in your life and have no idea what the real world is about. You're starting to sound more and more like an ignorant teenage who is bored with real school work and frequents places like this for adult conversation.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@Reason10 Why is one location more expensive than another? Because the supply of housing in a sought after area is exceeded by demand. So prices in the unrestricted market start to increase . . this is a textbook example of inflation in practice.

As for not having a real job, I readily hold my hands up, lol. I am an investment analyst working for a pension fund (with a particular interest in real estate and affordable housing) . . I am frequently mistaken for a schoolgirl though on account of my shortness 😂

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