Useful

How do we define something that is useful?

  • We define the status of a job by how much it is getting paid

But does how much you get paid correspond with the value of a job? Definitely not.

Is the garbage truck person who gets paid 60K/year less useful than a software engineering who gets paid 200K/year?

  • No. The software engineer gets paid more because his skillsets are harder to obtain and thus more valuable. In general, software engineers need to go through 3-5 years of university.

What if we attributed salary by usefulness in society? This is Socialism?