“Your salary is a direct measure of your value to society”
Agree
- Markets efficiently determine what society actually values
- High pay reflects rare and valuable skills
- Supply and demand don't lie about worth
- People vote with their wallets on importance
Disagree
- Teachers and nurses matter more than executives
- Markets reward exploitation not value creation
- Social value and economic value are completely different
- System is broken and rewards wrong things
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