[sevenless]

How about engineering a society that is a bit kinder to everyone rather than inflicting poverty on anyone? It's also unjust for the 'burger flippers' who make your food to live in poverty.

We need creative types. Artists, musicians, historians etc are no less valuable than engineers. If the market thinks otherwise then the market is wrong.

[imaginenore]

Artists, musicians, historians etc are no less valuable than engineers

On both average and median they definitely are less valuable. Free market basically figured that out.

What you're suggesting is some fantasy land where you ignore all that and pay everyone the same.

We should have social safety nets, sure, but to pay everyone the same is insanity. Because then I would like to be paid for sitting on my ass, playing counterstrike and receiving blowjobs.

[samsonradu]

Free market also figured out a 400$ per hour prostitute is more valuable than plenty of engineers and musicians so that argument doesn t really stand. Value and money are not always correlated.