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trackfan

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7. Perhaps janitor should pay more than teacher or CEO.

Reply to MadHound (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 8, 2012, 11:59 AM

Jan 2012

I think that most people were offered the proposition: tomorrow you can go to work as either a teacher, a CEO/big boss, or a janitor, and the pay were to be the same for all three, very few people would choose to be the janitor; so, if anything, it should pay more than either teacher or CEO in order to attract someone to do it. Hell, I'd do CEO for a lot less than either teacher or janitor.

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