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Originally Posted by Velvet
What about quality of life? If you enjoy what you are doing (I did in each of my jobs) then it hardly counts as work. But if it is a job you only do because of the compensation then you must have time for other things too. Fundamentally, the question is; are you living to work, or are you working to live?
Some people take advantage; some employers want slaves, some employees want to be lazy or not work at all. Some women (or men) want to marry to be kept by someone instead of joining the labor force.
Looking at TV if we want to attract young people, or if we want to attract top professionals with young families, we need to make the place attractive to them. If by nothing else then by good compensation. Otherwise, we will get what we pay for... or what we deserve?
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You might get what you pay for AND what you deserve, if you approach the situation with the attitude that anyone who's healthy can get a decent job that pays the bills and allows them at least some modest quality of life. Not everyone who's healthy can. But if you (not you, Velvet, you seem to "get it" - I mean the editorial you) insist that must be true and no other possibility exists, then you dig your hole, and are stuck with whatever crawls out of it to serve you.