No intellectually honest thought starts with this.

I mean at the end of the day, isn't it an economic issue and not a government worker issue? That if the common man could afford goods and medical services at the same time... Realistically, it would be through deflating the economy while keeping the pay rate the same to make it so those who are making the median or just a little above can afford groceries and medical bills at the same time and the federal interest rates being lowered to about 1.5% would make it so that mortgages are affordable.

If we're going to be saying people should be able to afford the bare minimum, than we need to level the economy for the common man and with that we need to adjust the inflation and federal interest rates. Other wise, we're just bitching about how much someone in a position of power makes.

If inflation lowered back to 2010 levels, the people making 17.50$ at the bj's down the street from me could afford to buy groceries and save for a mortgage or just start a savings in general.

The solution is obviously

No intellectually honest thought starts with this.

have you looked up the inflation rate? if it deflated back to 2010 inflation rates, we'd be living so comfortably it would be insane. it's 3.50% inflation vs 1.50% in 2010. 2010 prices were perfection. - source - https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/

it was just good enough to where people could afford life but that nice tight rope. Then again ...... if it deflated to 2015 prices we'd be okay too.

If you were a house builder, but you could only live in the typical houses that you’ve built… would that inspire you to do a good job?

I looked into manual labor jobs and it does suck that unless you're like a foreman or someone who'd been doing it for at least a decade straight, you're not making as much as you'd think

That's why I chose the medical field. Which is super fucked up because the people who risk life and limb to build society should be making as much as those who put together limbs and save lives.

If they did get paid more they might be more motivated to do a better job if they're not already. I think that if you're not as good as what your job is worth than you should be fired, not pushed upwards. I also think that if a construction worker was paid more they'd start comparing themselves to other professions in the bracket.

Lol, how nice are houses the builders build? Seems to me the builder should've built a less shitty home. Especially if they're a builder. Maybe there's a reason that one builder isn't getting paid much because that one builder fucking sucks at being a builder.

Maybe that ties into the example though 'cause if the government officials suck at what they do should they be getting paid as much? Which goes into my former answer of in summary, clean house of those that aren't worth their pay. There's people out there in the government that don't fucking suck and did everything they could in life to get their and earn their pay just like across the board of every profession.

There's those that fucking suck but are functional and never get anywhere and those that succeed and get further into the career they planned on doing. So if they remove the corrupt assholes and nepotism assholes maybe there would be, people who do their jobs and are worth their pay.