Step 1: Ensure that there's a massive, young, often foreign, working and underclass, that owns little or no property, but does your dirty work and finances your retirement.
Step 2: Propertyless classes become bitter and unruly, so you placate them, by giving them the vote and expanding their political representation.
Step 3: They vote to take away your property.
Step 4: 😠Whine about socialism.
That makes total sense, first they separated rich and poor and now they're playing them off against each other
The wealthy did this to themselves, IMO. You could see it here, with the Willkommenskultur preaching that the refugees and other migrants would save the retirement and health care systems with their contributions, and do all the jobs they didn't want to do because ewww real work.
They wanted slaves, and now there's a slave uprising, and they're like, but not like that, tho.
Everyone was literally on TV like, This is going to be so great because they're all young and healthy and they can come here and make up for the children we never had (children who would have inherited property, and would therefore be less-inclined to confiscate property). *everybody clap*
This is just the end game of everyone trying to get something for nothing.
you can make unpopular jobs popular by paying them appropriately
No, you actually cannot because wages are tied to the incomes and living costs of the customers. The closer the work is to the end consumer, the stickier the wages.
That is why plumbers don't get paid an ever-increasing amount, due to their scarcity: there is an upper-limit to what the average person can pay for their efforts.
The reason rich people's jobs pay more is because the customers of their efforts are more liquid, due to the size of the customer (government, international firms, etc.) or the market that their customer is in (luxury goods, fancy hotels, etc.).
You can be closer or further away from the money faucet, depending upon who pays for your work.
That's why the woman with a ph.D. in gender studies working as a diversity officer for a big company makes €150k, but the plumber she has to wait 2 weeks for an appointment with, earns €50k.
There is no direct link between the usefulness or necessity of effort and the amount paid for that effort.
my favorite examples are nurses and kindergarten teachers
Never enough of them, and everyone's life is disrupted by the shortage, yet their wages are surprisingly sticky.
It's because their wages are paid for by municipalities. People who work for the German federal government, filling in spreadsheets with ideas for paving bike paths in Peru, get paid twice what they make because the federal government can afford to pay their people twice as much.
It is, what it is. Workers can also be cantillionaires.
