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[–] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you want them to flip burgers for you, pay them what you'd want to make flipping burgers for them.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And I'll even say, I don't want to flip burgers. The thing I want to do most is my job, and other people can do other jobs. I feel like there's always this fear, oh, who will do the skilled/educated jobs! Like, smart folks will not suddenly be like "Eh, I don't want to be a doctor anymore because people can survive on flipping burgers."

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I get it, I love my career, but burning out is a real problem in high skill labor as is. This is especially the case for medicine. But I think the bigger concern is people dropping out of the education. Engineering school was brutal, and there were points I considered dropping out, but stuck around because it offered a better life than anything I could hope for if I dropped out. Medical school is even worse for that. Trades are physically difficult, often dangerous, and require education.

    I don't think even most people would drop their career in that scenario, but I do think we'd find ourselves in a position where there's very little competition for jobs like these and a lot of competition for currently low wage jobs, though that would probably push more people into training for more stable employment.

    Minimum wage still needs to be livable though

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