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by UK-AL 4005 days ago
Yes.

Why should someone be paid quite a high salary, for job that in your words requires a lower education? Shall we mandate all jobs should be paid well? If low skill jobs pay almost as well as high skill/high paying jobs, where's the economic incentive in increasing your skills? In many ways its a trap, because you won't go out of your way to increase your skills.

And when people say Taxi driving is actually quite a high skill job. I say you should have no problem fighting off the competition then.

"software developers as a whole will drop." And on that day, I'll get an MBA instead proving that the incentives work.

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I didn't say they should be paid quite a high salary. They should be paid at least minimum wage.

Regarding your MBA:

“A degree has value only if the degree is scarce, and the MBA is completely unscarce,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2313a2f8-7c81-11e3-b514-00144feabd...

Taxi drivers earn a lot more than minimum wage, if your competent.

"Regarding your MBA:" Or whatever degree pays.