Doctors can do well, but I’ve never heard of a billionaire doctor. Engineers do well, but they’re not billionaires. Both doctors and engineers work hard, but not in the same physically demanding, body-harming way that laborers work. Laborers can even be paid deceptively well, with construction labor sometimes paying something like triple the minimum wage. But the cost to the laborer is paid with body breaking down, and you can bet that job-site they’re contracted for doesn’t provide health insurance. So they accumulate injury, breaking down their body, thus limiting how much of that physically taxing job they can do. So, in effect, they’re not being paid nearly enough. Because the pay doesn’t compensate their loss of bodily function. Think of it like an NFL defensive lineman. They’re paid very well, but their body takes a huge toll. A lot of former NFL players are not doing well, despite their huge initial earnings.
Just to add in, that a CEO definitely doesn’t work as hard as their hardest working employee, and the avg. CEO pay is roughly 325 times that of their average worker.
The c suite isn’t in the example, but I wonder how many executives are engineers or scientists. But if an engineer is doctor enters the c suite, do they stop being engineers or doctors
They do stop being engineers and doctors, because now their job title is different? A doctor is someone that practices within their field, as with an engineer. They may still carry the qualification, and to a degree the skills necessary to be an engineer and doctor again, but that’s not their job any longer, thus not the appropriate title.
In terms of their skillset? Probably not immediately (skills may deteriorate due to lack of use over time). In terms of what they will be doing as part of the job, and how they use their skillset? To a certain degree, I would say yes.
Well if you want to be really cynical you could say “when one gets successful enough,” and that makes sense to me - at T Swift or Ed Sheeran’s level of success, the global music tours make their workday a matter of planning things out and negotiating - and they’re so successful that they have a bunch of people to do it for them already!! So it is at that point, where your workday goes from actually writing songs to just reusing what you’ve written.
Sensibly though, you could say they are both. People can be 2 things at once. One of the most famous “architects” in the world is Bjarke Ingels but he actually just owns the company; his training is in illustration rather than architectural design. He is a creative, and it informs his practice and what he actually approves, but a large part of being recognised as an architect is actually from doing the non-architect part of it.
The reason Mardukas specifically says Taylor Swift is more capitalist than musician though is something very precise to Taylor swift: her career was launched by her dad, a big finance guy, who pushed her work onto all his clients when she was just a kid. Taylor went from being marketed as a country musician to being a pop musician. He explicitly didn’t want her to have to work very hard in life and felt confident he could engineer a following for her. She must be richer than him now, so it worked better than expected.
If you earn your musician wings from having them bought for you, you have not ascended the bardic steps to stardom, but floated up in a hot air balloon instead.
Their salaries are great in America but only as good as finance professionals, who are then in the system of money manipulation (not saying they’re all crooks) and hence receive pointers on how to re-invest their wealth; Doctors and engineers on the other hand are often too busy to even think about investment, making more money from their money.
I thought engineers and doctors were the better paid professions
Artists are incredibly well paid off you get to the top of the game, like Taylor Swift or Spielberg
Not sure why you think labourers are harder working than artists or engineers
I’m an engineer and I still can’t afford a modest house. I’m paid well but I’m far from the biggest beneficiary of capitalism.
Labourers are harder working because they typically have longer hours and work some of the worst jobs.
You, sir, are daft.
Doctors can do well, but I’ve never heard of a billionaire doctor. Engineers do well, but they’re not billionaires. Both doctors and engineers work hard, but not in the same physically demanding, body-harming way that laborers work. Laborers can even be paid deceptively well, with construction labor sometimes paying something like triple the minimum wage. But the cost to the laborer is paid with body breaking down, and you can bet that job-site they’re contracted for doesn’t provide health insurance. So they accumulate injury, breaking down their body, thus limiting how much of that physically taxing job they can do. So, in effect, they’re not being paid nearly enough. Because the pay doesn’t compensate their loss of bodily function. Think of it like an NFL defensive lineman. They’re paid very well, but their body takes a huge toll. A lot of former NFL players are not doing well, despite their huge initial earnings.
Just to add in, that a CEO definitely doesn’t work as hard as their hardest working employee, and the avg. CEO pay is roughly 325 times that of their average worker.
Can we call them what they are; physicians. Calling them doctors undermines anyone with a Ph.D.
And some of the wealthiest people alive are also some of the dumbest losers I’ve ever heard open their mouths.
The point is that they’re paid much worse than the C-suite who reap the benefits of other people’s hard work.
The c suite isn’t in the example, but I wonder how many executives are engineers or scientists. But if an engineer is doctor enters the c suite, do they stop being engineers or doctors
They do stop being engineers and doctors, because now their job title is different? A doctor is someone that practices within their field, as with an engineer. They may still carry the qualification, and to a degree the skills necessary to be an engineer and doctor again, but that’s not their job any longer, thus not the appropriate title.
They are 100% in the example, but rather implicitly than explicitly.
And the engineer or scientists C-suite are probably a small minority. Most are business majors.
Yes? If you stop doing engineering work, then you’re not a practicing engineer.
(Unfortunately) you don’t get paid for the work you put in, or else there’d be UBI. You only get paid for what you do, and sometimes not even that.
My company’s CEO started was a software developer at the company…
In terms of their skillset? Probably not immediately (skills may deteriorate due to lack of use over time). In terms of what they will be doing as part of the job, and how they use their skillset? To a certain degree, I would say yes.
Tailor Swift and the likes are more capitalism than artistry.
When does one stop being an artist and turn into a capitalist
Well if you want to be really cynical you could say “when one gets successful enough,” and that makes sense to me - at T Swift or Ed Sheeran’s level of success, the global music tours make their workday a matter of planning things out and negotiating - and they’re so successful that they have a bunch of people to do it for them already!! So it is at that point, where your workday goes from actually writing songs to just reusing what you’ve written.
Sensibly though, you could say they are both. People can be 2 things at once. One of the most famous “architects” in the world is Bjarke Ingels but he actually just owns the company; his training is in illustration rather than architectural design. He is a creative, and it informs his practice and what he actually approves, but a large part of being recognised as an architect is actually from doing the non-architect part of it.
The reason Mardukas specifically says Taylor Swift is more capitalist than musician though is something very precise to Taylor swift: her career was launched by her dad, a big finance guy, who pushed her work onto all his clients when she was just a kid. Taylor went from being marketed as a country musician to being a pop musician. He explicitly didn’t want her to have to work very hard in life and felt confident he could engineer a following for her. She must be richer than him now, so it worked better than expected.
If you earn your musician wings from having them bought for you, you have not ascended the bardic steps to stardom, but floated up in a hot air balloon instead.
Taylor Swift works hard by modern standards but she would sit in the corner and cry after a day doing the work that we make immigrants do
You are talking out of your arse
You think she’d be ok after a 15 hour nursing home shift?
Their salaries are great in America but only as good as finance professionals, who are then in the system of money manipulation (not saying they’re all crooks) and hence receive pointers on how to re-invest their wealth; Doctors and engineers on the other hand are often too busy to even think about investment, making more money from their money.
u think contrarians should be paid more?