Job Vacancy: Low Skill, High Pay

 

The value of labour is conditioned primarily by two things; the knowledge, skills and experience required to do a job - and related to that, how easy it would be for the next person in line to come in and fill a vacancy. That is why lawyers don't earn £19,000 a year and waiters don't earn £70,000 a year. That is also why you are unlikely to obtain a job with a £70,000 a year salary without the skills and experienced required.

There are, however, one or two exceptions to this near-ineluctable law - the most obvious one is being a Member of Parliament, where you can be ludicrously uninformed, with no real skills or experience in anything that equips you to do your job competently, and yet still find yourself earning an annual salary of £93,904.

Apart from perhaps the paid social commentators who earn their living writing similar guff to what most politicians come out with (and most of them aren't on such a high salary), being an MP really is one of those ultra-rare cases where you can earn a reasonably large salary without having much of a clue about what you're talking about.

And if you happen to find yourself fortunate enough to be in a safe seat, whereby enough of the electorate in your particular constituency are pliable enough to keep voting you in, it's a well-paid job in which you can get away with riding on your public-funded gravy train of confusion for decades.

Only in jobs whereby the salary of such incompetent people is forcibly funded by people with no choice in the matter could such highly paid low skill workers earn over three times the average UK wage and get away with being so confused about so many basic principles related to their roles in society.