Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For too many, to work means having less income.
People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.
In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.
Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
I guess that's a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.
Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.
The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.