If people got paid based on merit what career would make the most money?

Question

If teachers got paid based on the lives that change or soldiers got paid for the effort to defend, firemen for the lives they save, actors 4 whatever they get paid 4.....Pay based on merit

Answer 1

impossible to quantify merit & impossible to assign a value per unit of merit if you could quantify it

also, merit is either study or nature's gift - study is work, loss of time, therefore should in justice be paid [& justice is the nonnegotiable price of peace, which is a great part of happiness, which is everyone's everything - so paying students is a part of everyone's everything, happiness]

nature's gift is not work, not personal loss of time or energy, therefore, in justice /peace/ happiness /everything, should not be paid

but people dont take their everything, their happiness, seriously, so will not take this seriously

pay for merit is egotism, greed, unjust, and causes violence [war & crime] which is escalative, & has escalated for 1000s of years of human history, from fists to nuclear winter capability

who is going to cough up the dough to pay for merit? it has to be the ungifted - & what justification can anyone give for punishing/ fining/ taxing the ungifted for being ungifted by nature? or for rewarding the gifted for nature's doing?

brains have always collared more money for themselves - brains take over govt, & pay themselves well - then the extra money gives them power, both to oppress, & to take/rake [not make] more money - but it is unjust, & has a dangerous backlash: cultural revolutions, nazi anti-intellectualism, bookburning, revenge against the 'winners' [robbers] by the 'losers' [robbed] of society

comparisons are odious, ie hateful - & hate is always repaid - saying we are better, & therefore deserve more, is an error not in our interests - 'the state built on injustice cannot stand' - it is in our selfinterest, our pursuit of happiness to avoid this [very common] error

& the fact that most people will agree that pay for merit is okay or right or fair does not alter the reality or lessen the blow

40% of the nazi party were primary school teachers [see book: male fantasies, by theweleit] - ie, the thrust down, the 'contempted', the neglected, the despised, the secondrated, the 'oh, they dont need equal pay, they are secondrate, not important, they are just teaching little kids', the failed artists like hitler - every assertion of 'i am better', of inequality, is selfdestructive -

meritocracy is death - equality of man, despite range of gifts, is life & happiness [everyone's everything]

there is false selfinterest, seeming selfinterest, tunnelvision selfinterest, myopic false selfinterest [selfishness, blindness], based on seeing a part of the picture [if i am meritorious & get paid for it, i will be well] & true selfinterest, 20/20 selfinterest, based on a careful study of the whole chain of causation all round the subject [personal pay for nature's gifts is illogical erroneous egotistical unjust injurious to others, thus injurious to self, because injury produces equal opposite reaction]

can a just rational dispassionate person justify taxing the ungifted to fund pay for merit for which the person did nothing? [study is personal merit & should be paid - but not limitlessly overpaid]

most of us would be ashamed to say to our mothers & fathers: i am brighter, give me more than tommy, tommy is not so bright, love me more, give me more - but when it comes to adulthood, healthy sensible shame is lacking: we say: ahah! i am beautiful, i can be a supermodel & be rich, i am bright, i can go to university & be wellpaid, comfortable, privileged - paying yourself for nature's bounty! - not thinking how it feels to be ungifted & thus condemned to economic inequality, secondratedness, with the gifted - living out life with the burden of fewer brains & lower pay & being ignored, seeing others, his equals 'before god', in humanity, living it up with nice shiny cars & warm homes & the respect

a false friend will support your ego, your error - a true friend will support your happiness, your reality

see my other answers for more on happiness & why we are destroying ourselves so efficiently

Answer 2

Merit is something relative. Each career asks for a different kind of merit. So, we can not compare different careers and the pays based on (amount of) merit. For example, we can not compare the merit of a soldier with the merit of a doctor. both merits are different in character. That's why the pay does not depend on the merit. Pay depends on what kind of merit you have. Not how much. So, let us talk about the kind of merit, then merits needed for a politician/ drug dealer, casino owners (different kind of enterprenures) and smugglers, stable owners are paid most, followed by CEOs and other management professionals.

Answer 3

i don't think of that this might nicely be a straightforward score device. I coach gifted scholars who consistently score severe. I actually have a grasp's degree and that i'm an extremely great instructor. This although should not be measured against my friends who're coaching decrease point youngsters who do not attempt as nicely. i don't visit different instructor's school rooms so i will't remark on their coaching varieties. i think of that this manner of hoop will only make new instructors bounce appropriate out of the activity. coaching is a tricky activity in spite of my great place I nevertheless might desire to manage complicated mothers and fathers and a few low appearing scholars. directors might nicely be unfair to instructors they do unlike. i think of the attempting out and the standards to alter right into a instructor are ridiculous adequate. We might desire to evaluate the lecturers who're exact mind-blowing. the different instructors will resent them and activity satisfaction and morale is going down. I might desire to be attentive to, that is happening at my college already. that is incorrect. If a instructor isn't any solid that's in many cases glaring. scholars, mothers and fathers and the administration are attentive to while issues are not appropriate. Why do not we seem at that incredibly of pitting instructors against one yet another? We stand to lose people who've a "calling" for coaching and then what? we've a team of people who're gazing numbers which in spite of the reality that that is greater advantageous than people in many cases say, coaching will under no circumstances make you rich.

Answer 4

I'm not sure who would get paid the most? I'm sure good parents would get an allowance though. Spiritual leaders would be well off since they can offer deep rooted benefits to many people. Farmers for providing food would get better pay I'm sure.

One thing I'm fairly certain of though, is that politicians would be taken out back and shot.

Answer 5

doctors, thats part of the reason that they get paid high now. Alot of the service industry would be paid higher too, they keep the country going.

Answer 6

Good question, a toss up between soldiers or coal miners who spend their lives in dangerous mines, breathing coal dust and getting nasty lung diseases, or how about social workers who battle mental illness and our societies other problems.

Answer 7

Tough one..Doctors,police,firemen,military save lives and have to be on top.Teachers mold lives..

Answer 8

That is a good idea, but I think video gamers (testers) would also make alot of money too. Thats to easy for them.

Answer 9

Teachers.Closely followed by dope dealers.