people enjoy doing high-status things and will trade off pay for status. asking for equal pay as low-status work is essentially asking to have your cake and eat it too

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20after4 an hour ago | parent [-]

Is working for Wikipedia somehow a higher status job than working for Google?

edit: I'm asking because my 7 year stint as an engineer at Wikipedia hasn't provided me with an endless stream of lucrative job offers.

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whimsicalism an hour ago | parent | next [-]

absolutely and i'm surprised that you don't think so.

e: and to your edit, i'm talking about social/moral status

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komali2 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Your edit is comparing opposites, basically making the ops point for them.

You work at google for money. Money is high status under capitalism.

You work at Wikipedia for status in the traditional sense - you trade capitalist status (the salary) for the higher actual status of working for a non profit.

	▲	lux-lux-lux 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No one thinks non-profit work is ‘high-status.’ People do it because making the world better in some way is more personally motivating than figuring out how to put video ads on refrigerators or whatever.o