Reply #64: Many people with education and skills are not adequately

[Cleita]

compensated for these anyway, mainly women. What makes you think that being a janitor isn't a skill that requires knowledge of various chemicals and their effects on where they are used? It also requires a certain amount of strength. Do we not reward the football player for his strength? So why not the janitor?

A lot of high wage compensating jobs really don't require all that much skill and education, models and strippers for instance? Anyone who invests eight hours a day in hard work deserves a living wage. Anyone else will get compensated because of the demand for what they do, not their skills and education.

Example, back in the 1970's my husband owned a restaurant. At that time Reagan was governor in California and he cut away funding for grants that were keeping academics employed. These out of work researchers had to find other employment. My husband hired some of them. There was a time when the majority of our staff had Phd's. They got paid the going wage for restaurant workers like anyone else.

Incidentally, the one high school drop out, on our staff, Mitzi, made the most money, because she made the most tips. Why? She had big boobs and didn't mind displaying a lot of them. She had no skills nor education, but she had something that was in demand and got compensated for it. Your argument doesn't have legs.