> Your compensation isn't determined by nobility or a sense of equity.
> It's determined by the difficulty of the job.
I strongly disagree. Example: working in a sweatshop is infinitely more difficult than being a software engineer and pays infinitely less.
Your compensation is determined by a big set of factors that I'm sure a sociologist could spell out for us all. I argue that the difficulty of the job is in fact not nearly as important as other factors like race/ethnicity, gender, mental health, etc.
> When a market doesn't reflect that, it is horribly broken and will be horribly abused by the participants.
I think with "difficult" he didn't mean how physically taxing it is, but how hard it is to find people who can do it. Almost anybody can to the work in a sweat shop after a couple of days (weeks?) of training. Becoming a programmer is not something everybody can do and even for those who can it takes years of study before they are competitive on the job market.
> It's determined by the difficulty of the job.
I strongly disagree. Example: working in a sweatshop is infinitely more difficult than being a software engineer and pays infinitely less.
Your compensation is determined by a big set of factors that I'm sure a sociologist could spell out for us all. I argue that the difficulty of the job is in fact not nearly as important as other factors like race/ethnicity, gender, mental health, etc.
> When a market doesn't reflect that, it is horribly broken and will be horribly abused by the participants.
Eh... I'm not sure such a market exists.