This is something I discovered recently when I saw David Tracy’s post about the window sticker for the Grand Wagoneer. After looking up the price of vehicles adjusted for inflation, vehicles these days aren’t as expensive as they seem.

Exactly, we’ve carved out sections of the labor market and deemed them undesirable, unworthy of well pay. Then we force the undesirables of society into these jobs. Then to top it off, we demonize these people for relying on government assistance, calling them lazy. It’s truly bizarre.

Why should someone who decides that serving others food is enough for them be penalized by making less than they can live on? Someone has to do it, there is a demand for someone to do it, why should we arbitrarily label some jobs as inferior and not deserving of pay they can live on?

So a person with a Masters in Art should be highly paid? I mean they are very skilled. How about teachers? They are skilled.

But almost no one wants to do it, if the labor market actually made sense, these jobs would pay much more.

Perhaps we should pay teachers more? I know that’s a touchy subject and citizens take up arms at the thought of raising property tax $20 a YEAR to pay for higher teacher wages.

Who cares if they make almost as much as you? Does it hurt your ego? I went to school and got an advanced degree and don’t care one bit if someone flipping burgers makes close to what I make. What I make is sufficient for my needs and my work is a hell of a lot less demanding than working fast food, construction,…

Why should they be paid less? Because it makes others in “higher skilled” jobs feel less about themselves?

Demanding in what ways? Standing over a hot plate doing the same thing over and over for hours is pretty mentally demanding. I’ve never done it but I’d image it sucks and I went to school so I would never have to do a job like that. That being said, those that do end up doing that job should be paid a wage that they…

My company starts out at four weeks, five after three years. Based on the billions in profit I think they are doing just fine.

Didn’t say their salaries should be the same, but if someone is going to put in the time doing a job someone is willing to pay them to do, they should be paid a minimum wage that is ample enough to live on. Our current minimum wage is no where close.

True, it’s a nice paycheck, not something that should be demonized as excessive.

With a multi-million dollar parting gift, boy those CEOs have it rough.

After automation replaces the line workers and robot programmers are a dime a dozen, your salary will be the one thought of as too high.

We should say it about fast food workers, too. Labor is labor, if you put in the time you should be able to afford the American quality of life.

Got news for you, 60k a year isn’t great money anymore, hasn’t been in a decade.

Why not? 60k a year is about the base in most location to live halfway comfortably. The time off should be a starting point for all full time jobs also. Just because other jobs are paid shit wages and given crap time off doesn’t make it right.

Ugly truck, tiny tires, tiny bed.

Absolutely, tax vehicles based on weight and efficiency.

If the person in the passenger seat is monitoring what the car sees, and assuming the sensors were working, perhaps they would have seen the pedestrian and alerted the driver?