After all, even those whose parents pay for their education do make a financial investment - - - the kids who go to work right out of high school make less per year but they get a 4 year head start!!!!! Considering the time value of money, the college-educated don't catch up to the non-college educated in terms of lifetime earnings until their mid-to-late 30s (depending upon post-college profession), even BEFORE CONSIDERING the financial cost of the college education.
And let's consider the different type of work done, and the different environment. Explaining white collar work to my high school friends who chose to make a career out of what we did for summer jobs is like the kids' book "Fish is Fish" but it IS a lot more difficult, and there's more risk - there's a problem to be solved and if you get it wrong, or get a few wrong, you're fired, and everyone in your field knows why you were fired.
So..... is it really "unfair" that educated, white collar workers make more?
2007-08-14 14:23:52 · 8 answers · asked by truthisback 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Who said its unfair? If you were going to make the same money for pumping gas as doing brain surgery, why be a brain surgeon?...this is the classic (and wrong) socialist theory that it is the amount of labor put into a product that is important as opposed to the value of the product itself...in other words, using this theory, if it takes an hour to make a blueberry pie, and an hour to make a mud pie, they are worth equal value...but who's going to pay for a mud pie?
2007-08-14 14:33:33 · answer #1 · answered by makrothumeo2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends what a person does with the education. Just because a person did time in school doesn't mean they are entitled to a bigger paycheck. The contribution one makes & how many others you are responsible for is part of the equation.
The people that say the ability to enter/be accepted to a name school actually believe they are not for profit are fooling themselves. The schools are looking out for #1 themselves. These schools are looking for endolments. The better they feel their graduates will do the better the fund raising they can do with/through them.
Yes the Poor have to work harder for their grades. Thats life. The illegals have to work harder for their life. The world isn't a Utopia. I'm sorry. Appreciate what you have & know even the illegals think the US is a land of opportunity & many are will to bust their tush to make it.
The poor that are lucky enough to be born here should be willing to go as far as the illegals. They will leap frog over many that feel that the college degree entitles them to a bigger pay check. By contributing more to the wealth of the world some of that wealth will return to their pocket.
2007-08-14 14:42:19 · answer #2 · answered by viablerenewables 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If someone produces something of value for another party, he or she should be compensated accordingly. If the college education enables one to produce something of greater value, then it is fair that he receives greater compensation.
All else is folly.
Likewise, it is fair that an uneducated person who builds cars on an assembly line makes more than a professor with a PhD if the fruits of his labor are more valuable to a third party.
There is no intrinsic value to anything. There is only what people will pay. Remember, in business you do not get what you "deserve", you get what you negotiate.
2007-08-14 15:07:39 · answer #3 · answered by A J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it is fair that educated people make more money. What is unfair is that kids who can get accepted to college but can not afford to go. The kids who are not brilliant enough to get a scholarship but can get accepted into a college. Then they end up with bad jobs that make bad money. Then they can't pay for their kids to go to college. It is a horrible cycle.
2007-08-14 14:34:22 · answer #4 · answered by Lindsey G 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No it's not unfair that educated people make more. Using your mind has always been more valued than physical labor. Educated people try harder to learn more so they can be more valuable.
2007-08-14 14:33:50 · answer #5 · answered by Flatpaw 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is not unfair, and provides an incentive to achieve more from life. than a job that asks..."do you want fries with that"...
2007-08-14 14:33:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has anybody ever said it was unfair? Only a kook would say that.
2007-08-14 14:30:58 · answer #7 · answered by beren 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it's not unfair.
2007-08-14 14:30:57 · answer #8 · answered by frugernity 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋