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by lex-lightning 864 days ago
What about different working conditions? Is one hour in a coal mine the same as one hour as an actor?

What if a person has a debilitating illness that prevents them from working but is also expensive to take care of?

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Come on, people have written thousands of pages about economy over centuries, I wrote a few sentences here. Of course there are differences between working conditions, individual abilities, and whatnot, that is why I wrote to a first approximation. You are not really expecting that I say something about every possible aspect and edge case in the comments here?

Let us justify why some high ranking managers deserve to retire wealthy after a couple of years while their employees at the factory floor have to work for the rest of their lives while never coming close to the wealth of their higher management.