Yeah but that doesn’t really work because it still treats all the hours as fundamentally equal which just isn’t true. It may take someone 20000 hours to become a doctor with a particular skillset, but that doesn’t mean ANY person can do that. Person X may never, regardless of investment of time, be able to obtain a mastery of that skillset. Moreover, for things like surgery you’re talking about the stacking of hours for regular education, med school, specialty, residency, and then surgery. Each of these is a threshold that increasingly fewer people can cross.
It seems that reasonably the best thing to do is to award additional value based on scarcity and necessity of profession, but you might just back yourself back into capitalism I guess? At the end of the day I can dig a ditch but you can’t fix your grandfather’s heart so that amortization is not a very satisfying split.
To be fair this isn’t necessarily how socialism/communism works - it’s just a good way to get people thinking about the insane disparity between the common person and the 1%.
Under socialism roles that are hard to fill either because they’re hard/specialized or just undesirable can be certainly be compensated. It may not be directly monetarily, it could be earlier retirement, more time off, more desirable housing/location, etc.
And more realistically in a milder/earlier form of socialism different jobs could absolutely pay more. Maybe a doctor gets 5x what a grocery store stocker makes. (But housing/healthcare/etc is covered for both) That would still lead to a world exponentially more equitable than the one we live in.
Yeah but that doesn’t really work because it still treats all the hours as fundamentally equal which just isn’t true. It may take someone 20000 hours to become a doctor with a particular skillset, but that doesn’t mean ANY person can do that. Person X may never, regardless of investment of time, be able to obtain a mastery of that skillset. Moreover, for things like surgery you’re talking about the stacking of hours for regular education, med school, specialty, residency, and then surgery. Each of these is a threshold that increasingly fewer people can cross.
It seems that reasonably the best thing to do is to award additional value based on scarcity and necessity of profession, but you might just back yourself back into capitalism I guess? At the end of the day I can dig a ditch but you can’t fix your grandfather’s heart so that amortization is not a very satisfying split.
To be fair this isn’t necessarily how socialism/communism works - it’s just a good way to get people thinking about the insane disparity between the common person and the 1%.
Under socialism roles that are hard to fill either because they’re hard/specialized or just undesirable can be certainly be compensated. It may not be directly monetarily, it could be earlier retirement, more time off, more desirable housing/location, etc.
And more realistically in a milder/earlier form of socialism different jobs could absolutely pay more. Maybe a doctor gets 5x what a grocery store stocker makes. (But housing/healthcare/etc is covered for both) That would still lead to a world exponentially more equitable than the one we live in.
I didn’t say it was a particularly good solution. It’s definitely more complicated than hour-for-hour.