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minus-squaregian @lemmy.grys.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down2·4 months ago Why pay someone $200k/yeae when someone will do the job for $80k/year? Assuming the same job’s quality, a possible answer is “because to live where your company is you need to be paid $200K/year”
minus-square01011@monero.townlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-24 months agoThat presumes an interest in your survival…
minus-squarejohn89@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months ago “because to live where your company is you need to be paid $200K/year” How do people live in these areas without making $200k/year?
minus-squaregian @lemmy.grys.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agoThey cannot, that is the reason you need to pay that much to work for you.
minus-squarejohn89@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoSo nobody lives in these areas that makes under $200k/year? Even the janitors?
minus-squaregian @lemmy.grys.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI don’t know, but if they live there, I think they have it that good. It is more (way more) probable that they just commute far enough away from there to have lower housing cost
Assuming the same job’s quality, a possible answer is “because to live where your company is you need to be paid $200K/year”
That presumes an interest in your survival…
How do people live in these areas without making $200k/year?
They cannot, that is the reason you need to pay that much to work for you.
So nobody lives in these areas that makes under $200k/year?
Even the janitors?
I don’t know, but if they live there, I think they have it that good.
It is more (way more) probable that they just commute far enough away from there to have lower housing cost