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Originally Posted by arcsine
Fine. You are welcome to your opinion. But I have to ask a question that may be best suited to another thread.
Certainly, most management, financial or legal professions having little direct benefit to production of a good or service yet all are well compensated in general. So what is our criteria for making an evaluation in the relative worth of a persons vocation? Is it that we value what we do ourselves in specificity or field? That they know how to manipulate the fiscal markets? They have advanced degrees? (Thus cannot be true as witnessed by this thread.).
I am naive in thinking that worth should somehow we connected to the tangible product being supplied.
The question is "What IS a valued occupation?"
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That is a very valid question, arcsine. And I would say, the answer to this question explains many of the issues this country faces. Management pays a lot more than execution. Therefore, everyone wants to be a manager, get an MBA and give the orders. Problem is, everything becomes top heavy, and you get the problem discussed in this thread. Technical jobs, and even engineering jobs, are undervalued. Why is it that most engineering jobs reach their peak at less that $100k/yr, when managing can net you twice that? It forces good engineers to go into management, and it causes a lack of good engineers.