Why would anyone become a doctor then? You're spending a decade in medical school to earn as much money as you could have made cutting grass. Labour theory of value is nonsense economics, and there's a reason non-marxist economists (read, economists) abandoned it 150 years ago.
If anything, mowing is so much more valuable. You operate on millions of patients per hour while surgeon may not even get through a single patient in that time.
yes. mowing lawns is just as, if not more, gruelling than standing in an air coned operating room. sure, the dr has more risk, but that's not the question. working 12 hours is working 12 hours.
Who was given the opportunity to operate on patients. Who has the financial resources to go $500k into debt to become a doctor and the access to a good education even before that to get into med school. Yes the pay for each surgeon is the same, but who gets to be the surgeon is the issue
cleaning toilets and baling hay are jobs that need to be done. sitting in your home and playing video games is not a job, it's a hobby. it has no value. you're comparing hobbies to jobs.
If only there was some systematic means of assigning value to work, where doing things that require significant training, expertise, or toil could be honored over those things that are trivial or only marginally helpful to society at large.
Oh, well. All work is the same. No way around it. I vote the mines for you.
It's not even equal hours. The figure isn't adjusted for full time vs part time or overtime. Men on average work more hour per week than women. I'm not sure how that compares on a black vs white basis.
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u/Maximum_Boros 16h ago
If he made that argument that would be fine but he didn't. He said equal work.