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In reply to the discussion: Fast-Food Strikes Expand Across U.S. to 50 Cities [View all]Flatulo
(5,005 posts)of higher wages by virtue of skill, training or ability. I did not put quotes round it, so I wasn't quoting anyone. They're my own words.
The poster to whom I was referring made it very clear that he or she considered all labor to be of equal value, as I've documented. That's empirically false, as evidenced by the economic system under which we in the States live.
In our economic system, persons with greater ability, skill, training are compensated more highly than a persons with lesser ability. This is generally true across the whole economic spectrum, but goes non-linear at the very top of the income scale, where some very stupid people have done very well. That's because a normal review process which we all go through to measure our performance is dispensed with, and the review is done by one's close buddies on the board, so the system doesn't function well with these fixes in place.