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No One is Really Working: Justifying the High Salaries of Early-Career Professionals
While the work between a US and Indian employee is of similar quality for the vast majority of cases, US workers are more contextually competent and less likely to initiate these value-destroying events. High salaries for young professionals allow educated elites to maintain cultural capital while preventing social unrest that might result from more obvious inequality. These jobs provide high enough compensation to sustain consumption-focused lifestyles without requiring genuine adult responsibility or productivity, keeping otherwise unproductive young professionals politically and socially compliant.
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