Do you believe in equal pay for equal time worked?

Question

Shouldn't everyone be paid the same amount whether you are a doctor, lawyer, farmer, clerk, food server? Are we not each spending the same amount of time doing something.

You say, well a doctor has malpractice insurance and schooling. Yes, but that is taken care of by everyone. If he messes up 3 times he finds other jobs less demanding. If an individual wants to start working off his debt to society he can start right out of school and get the same pay as a Doctor or Lawyer that has spent 10 years in school not contributing to the tax base and in many cases being paid to learn. Everyone should get a free ride to learn as long as they want, if they want to pay for it they can as well, but in the end everyone should make the same. You say, this will destroy the country since man's only carrot is greed and wealth and a Doctor would never justify making the same pay as a lonely nurse. Then this will weed out those that don't have a passion for helping but a pension for the cash.

Answer 1

I've actually never thought of it that way but you are correct. A doctor only makes more and contributes higher taxes since we are stupid enough to believe we should pay him or lawyers ridiculous amounts of money. Many of these people say well he sacrificed at school. Heck I know many many people with masters and doctorates that make nowhere near what the doctor made and they worked full time jobs while at school and have to work much longer and harder then doctors and lawyers, what a crock of bull about paying someone more since he went to school longer. In fact we should pay them less since they weren't productive at all in society during those times.

Answer 2

A doctor ,a lawyer or any other professional get paid because of time served in college,a clerk or a server has hours served in training not years. Although servers and clerk don't get paid enough it doesn't add up to the years you have to spend in college to be a professional.

Answer 3

Communist?

Answer 4

If you were sick, how much would you be willing to pay a doctor?

Now, how much would you be willing to pay a grocery clerk to carry your bags to your car?

Answer 5

No... people should be measured on output, not input. This promotes competition and improvement.

If everyone received the same pay regardless of the job they performed, or how well they performed it, many people would slack off and many difficult jobs would be understaffed.

Answer 6

A doctor or other educated professional spends years at college studying and paying. During this time the student earns nothing (pays instead). Meanwhile the clerk or truck driver is earning money. The student makes a sacrifice of years.

And why would someone choose hard work, dangerous work, or work where you continuously have to learn and think, instead of something easy?

Mind you there are jobs where compensation is excessive for services provided (i.e. people are overpaid). These are CEOs of large corporations earning 10's or 100's of millions a year regardless of their performmance. Unless you own the company, no one is worth 100 million a year. Professional athletes, movie stars are also overpaid often. Their work is not very important since all they do is entertain us possibly.