Are Staff Appraisers paid customary and reasonable fees?

[JeffSH]

Actually, we don't sell people as commodities. But we do sell our time/labor for whatever the market will bear. You are the sole owner of your time/efforts, and nobody can take that from you.

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Is this a joke? The company owns your labor, time, and effort. They pay you a fraction of what you produce in order to enrich the lives of the people at the top. The ownership class who lives off money.

Not everyone can work for themselves like we do. That would be silly. Our job is unique.

 

[JeffSH]

You have more in common with a day-laborer making dollars per day in Somalia than you do with a hedge fund manager living in Manhattan.

 

[George Hatch]

When you select and pay an orange off the stack in the produce section you only own what you paid for; you don't own every orange in the stack just because you bought one of them.

Regardless of the job, an employer can only own the time/effort that you SELL to them. That's why they call it selling out.

And since you mention appraisals, just because a client buys one appraisal from you doesn't give them ownership of every appraisal you did that week. One fee - one appraisal. When working on staff it's one week's pay for one week's work.

 

[George Hatch]

You have more in common with a day-laborer making dollars per day in Somalia than you do with a hedge fund manager living in Manhattan.

#sowhat

You're using the typical feelz-forward argument of starting with the outcome and working backward into a predetermined judgement instead of starting at the beginning . It's exactly the opposite of what you're supposed to be doing in your day job. In your day job the conclusions are supposed to occur AFTER the analysis of the empirical data, not in lieu of it.

A (successful) hedge fund manager gets paid more than the illiterate day laborer (or appraiser) because their clients value that work more highly. Some oranges are better than others and some work pays better than others. Those values are established in the market, not by the State.

And the only way your kind can possibly change that is by empowering an authoritarian state to obtain for them that which they are incompetent/incapable of getting for themself. Which, "incompetent/incapable" is the foundation of socialism's need to interfere with the normal supply/demand dynamic which drives the pricing of all goods/services in the market.

"It's immoral for some houses to cost more than other houses. Expensive houses are immoral and have no right to exist. So from now on all houses have the same value, regardless how the market participants value them."

It looks pretty dumb when I write these ideas out in longhand, doesn't it?

 

[JeffSH]

What feelz. Where have I once appealed to emotion?

 

[JeffSH]

"It's immoral for some houses to cost more than other houses. Expensive houses are immoral and have no right to exist. So from now on all houses have the same value, regardless how the market participants value them."

It looks pretty dumb when I write these ideas out in longhand, doesn't it?

Socialism is when everyone has the same house

 

[JeffSH]

"It's immoral for some houses to cost more than other houses. Expensive houses are immoral and have no right to exist. So from now on all houses have the same value, regardless how the market participants value them."

It's immoral to profit from rent seeking behavior. It's not immoral to have a big house.

 

[George Hatch]

Why is your labor worth 3x your state's minimum wage? The fast food worker is working just as hard as you, so that's not it.

 

[JeffSH]

Why is your labor worth 3x your state's minimum wage? The fast food worker is working just as hard as you, so that's not it.

Most fast food workers could not do what we do. Not without extensive training. What point are you trying to make? Like I've said, I envision a world where the difference between plumber and CEO is not so large, but I don't envision a world without pay differences. That's silly.

But on fast foods, Fast-food chains spend about $3 billion each year on television advertising – enough money to pay 75,000 workers $40,000 a year to build hospitals, schools, or do any number of productive activities that would actually benefit society.

 

[TerryRohrer]

Most fast food workers could not do what we do. Not without extensive training. What point are you trying to make? Like I've said, I envision a world where the difference between plumber and CEO is not so large, but I don't envision a world without pay differences. That's silly.

But on fast foods, Fast-food chains spend about $3 billion each year on television advertising – enough money to pay 75,000 workers $40,000 a year to build hospitals, schools, or any number of productive activities that would actually benefit society.

How much does your favorite government spend on advertising? Why don't you go after the Armed Services for sponsoring sporting events? How much does the Postal Service spend on designing and printing politically motivated stamps every year? Seems you should start where everyone's dollars are being wasted instead of aiming first at private parties spending their own money.