An employer who has leverage is exploiting you, I never denied that. My point is that it’s leverage that gives people power. If your best skill set is equivalent to a high school student, you have no leverage. You can obtain leverage by obtaining and developing skills, or by creating value. If not, the employer has all the leverage and will use it to exploit you.
Leverage goes both ways. It’s just people like you refuse to see it both ways. You just think employers with all the leverage will pay you more out of the goodness of their heart. No, you as person has to create leverage so that you can demand it.
Curious. Why is our economic system set up in such a way that the people who do most of the hard labour get paid the least those higher up get paid shit tons for nothing. Is there a specific reason or some benefit this?
Hard laborers work harder than I do. I developed a skill that half the population would find almost impossible to do, and another 35% of the population would find extremely challenging to do.
I worked hard to develop this skill, but I’d choose it instead of physical labor many times over. Now that I have the skills I can coast and still be paid well.
Not all hard laborers are paid poorly. Commercial fisherman can be paid up to $340k with an average of $75k. Nobody wants to do this job because it sucks, they have more leverage to negotiate pay. When there is more supply than demand for certain jobs why would a company pay more?
In highschool I worked as a stockman for hobby lobby. It was the hardest I worked because they understaffed. There should have been 2-3 stockman per shift. Despite working so hard, and providing value to the company, I had no leverage to increase my pay. When I left the company I was replaced within a week. My job involved hard work, but any able bodied person could do it.
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u/Lucky_Shop4967 8d ago
That’s the exploitation the person you are replying to is talking about. Not everyone that is a hard worker is wired towards exploitation.