In well-functioning markets, things get cheaper. This is a key reason you should not define your worth by your salary. Your salary is the price of your labour, it is not your worth. No one, anywhere, gets paid what they are worth. In markets that are clearly broken like education, health, law, and housing, prices do not go down for the honest reason that we do not really want them to. A high price can also be the product. Like the record prices paid for paintings. The product is the signal of what the buyer can afford. If we want affordable housing, you do not need to be Elon Musk to figure it out. Build more houses. We misname skilled and unskilled labour. It is not about the level of skill. It is about the supply of people who can solve the problem. Spread the skill and the price comes down. The second level problem with problem-solving, is what do you solve next? What do we do with our time and sense of self if the problem we solve gets solved permanently? We live in a world where we need problems to eat, and have a firm handshake. We manufacture problems and defend the walls around the containers we solve them in.
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