That would be great if people actually got paid according to the true economic value of their work.
Instead everyone gets paid about 10% of the value of their work at most.
In the past 50 years worker productivity has grown exponentially and with it the wealth created y their labor. Yet wages and salaries have remained stagnant.
Workers are required to have ever increasing levels of education and job skills yet their salaries and wages remain flat.
It now takes 2 college educated people with job skills far beyond their college education to live a middle-class existence. Almost all live in debt and pay check to pay check.
This is NOT the way it used to be and this is NOT the way it should be. Working people are being ripped off each and every day of their lives. They need to wake up and put a stop to it - thru whatever means needed.
People aren't paid by what they feel they are worth they are paid according to what the employer thinks the job is worth.
Pure BULLSHIT!
If left up to employers, employees would get paid NOTHING - no matter how productive they are.
Do you seriously believe that employers evaluate a workers true value and pay them accordingly?
Seriously?
The more valuable a worker is the LESS an employer wants to pay them. They want them financially desparate so that the employer can continue to maximize profit from their labor.
How many times do employers tell a worker:
"I'm grossly underpaying you... you're just so incredibly productive that I'm going to give you a huge raise"
NEVER!
no it's not bullshit and if you held an actual job you would know it's not.
Guess again fool!
I make a healthy six figure salary working as a systems analyst (i.e. systems administrator, database administrator and network engineer).
But I spent many years working as an electrical engineer on factory floors and I've seen how grossly underpaid workers are. I've seen the differences between union shops and non-union shops. I've seen how employers will abuse workers in everyway possible - if they can get away with it.
I had more education, experience and skills then you or anyone like you can imagine, yet when I returned to this country employers paid me next to nothing - because they recognized that I was in an economically disadvantaged position - despite the fact that they were making millions off my labor. (And yes- talented engineers are worth millions to a company)
It took me years to climb the ladder to the point that I came even close to being paid fairly.
All they need to do is ask how much you were being paid at you're last job and they know that you're desparate.
My only mistake was starting my career by choosing to work for a government contractor overseas at a low salary - that's what I get for having a sense of patriotism.
So don't give me this BULLSHIT about employer paying what employees are worth!