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by WastingMyTime89 1641 days ago
> This is worth more than mastering a skill that is saturated with competition relative to demand.

The job market is not an efficient market. It doesn’t respond to offer and demand signals.

Nurses have been in short supply in most of the developed world for the past three decades yet are still paid peanuts. It’s all about your proximity to the handling of money and historical trend. That’s why even people doing menial jobs in banking are well compensated while people working in heavy industries are paid relatively little compared to the complexity of their jobs.