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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mucus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [qb] You have as much of a right to a job as anyone else. But wages are determined by the market. Blue collar jobs should pay well because they are unpleasent, unpopular, back-breaking, and without them civilization would fall to pieces. Surely you should know this? I'm sure that Toronto without programmers looks a heck of a lot nicer than <a href="http://cbc.ca/news/interactive/toronto_trash/index.html">Toronto without garbagemen.</a> [/qb][/QUOTE]I'd be more than willing to take that bet. Toronto went more than a week without garbage collection. I'd like to see it go a week without electricity. The main reason why garbagemen, postal workers, etc. have inflated wages is because they have a strong union and can go on strike whenever they feel like. Unfortunately, the engineers and programmers that operate your power system aren't nearly as well organised, many of them are classified as emergency workers and can't go on strike in the first place, and if that wasn't bad enough, a fair number of them are bound by professional oaths. Blackmailing society isn't a luxury that everyone has, until then....saying as a blanket rule that "wages are determined by the market" is a bit near-sighted. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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