
Originally Posted by
valade16
Here's the problem with your view: the best burger flipper on earth is still only going to get... $10. So the superior employee there doesn't actually make any more money. This is true of hundreds of thousands of jobs (the best Amazon warehouse worker will make... exactly as much as every other warehouse worker. The best Walmart greeter will make... exactly as much as every other greeter).
So these companies are not actually paying their superior workers any more money for being superior workers. They are only paying the superior workers who move up to superior jobs (which is very few) more money.
So really, what you're saying is if you're a superior worker the best way to make more money is to actually leave the job because being a superior worker doesn't pay you any more at that job.
That's simply not true....every Amazon warehouse worker makes the same? c'mon, they'd have starting wages, intermediate wages, and top wages......you can say a group of workers may reach the max for their position sooner than others, but you're also talking largely unskilled labor. I don't need a degree to flip a burger, but I also can't expect to be paid according to my education level to do a job that doesn't benefit from my having a degree. Companies pay superior workers by offering them higher responsibility and better positions.
gotta love 'referential' treatment