I've been a manager. It's a lot more work and accountability than that.
Life is not fair son. I have the soul of a poet and the heart of a lion but no one is throwing roses at me.
What is "fair" is the price agreed to by the employer and the manager for his labor. It has nothing to do with what you think about it. If you think you are not paid properly, then you need to (1) negotiate a better wage with your current employer, (2) find someone else to pay you more, or (3) start your own business.
Why would you pay people the same amount for different jobs? The reason why we pay different prices for different things, is so that we can rationally allocate resources. If we paid the same price for every common class of good, we would have no way to determine quality within that class.
It's not about physical difficulty. Even the dumbest moron can lift rocks all day. People are paid by the value of their labor as it relates to productivity. Managers, as organizer, theoretically increase the productivity of the people working under them. They perform a specific role of oversight, planning, communication, and quality control.
It's not revolutionary. It is regressive. It basically wipes out everything we know about economics in the last 150 years and returns us to dark ages, pre-industrial, pre-enlightenment thinking about social exchange and human action. Socialism is an old concept, not a new one.
Collective suicide.
Look at what happened in China before reform. Look at what has happened in Cuba. In East Germany. In Russia. Collectivism leads to collective poverty, because there is no rational resource allocation (no market derived prices) which creates compound clusters of errors over time, and the incentives to produce (profits) are undermined in a system of collective ownership aka commons because the incentive is to take more than you put in. And as the pie dwindles, everyone puts in less and less until there is nothing.
If you want to help people, you want to set them free. You want them not to be tied to a collective, but give them the individual opportunity to succeed. To save, and learn, and to choose their own rational best interest.
And they will surprise you, because capitalists have always been the charitable ones bailing out socialists. People fled socialism to go to capitalist countries. Capitalists are the ones who drop drugs and food into crisis areas. Capitalists are the ones who shipped grain to the Soviet Union to offset mass starvation.
Communism/socialism/fascism/collectivism have all been tried. History is a testament to how as nations become more socialistic, they impoverish themselves and lose liberties, and nations that become more capitalistic become wealthier, lives become longer and liberty prevails.
