Originally Posted by Dude
Originally Posted by Portia
ETA: Well, look at what our society pays businessmen vs scientists... You get what you pay for.

The market is people, and people are often irrational.

How is that irrational?

The market simply values businessmen more highly than scientists.

If businessmen are more valuable, then it logically follows that businessmen are more highly compensated.

You first have to make a value assertion so that you have something upon which to perform your rational operation upon.

If people within a market prefer businessmen more, because businessmen are inherently awesome or because businessmen shimmer with financial glory, then you rationally pay them more.

Maybe people value basking in the reflected dollar-saturated glow of their local wealthy businessmen.