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by mcny 3171 days ago
> Except that this is not exactly true either. Some times it is, other times it isn't. Yet the salary relations never change.

I think the meta is for "intellectual"/"mental" workers you have to pay someone enough that they focus on the task they need to work on rather than spending mental cycles on how to afford to pay for rent or food or vaccines/formula for baby.