Why do some jobs earn more money than others?

Short & Curly

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Molly and Carl have just found out that some people earn a lot more money than they do, and this just makes no cents (pun intended). So how do we decide what different types of jobs should be paid? What about if those jobs are dangerous? If they take many years of training and study? Or if they will make the world a better place?

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0:00.0	ABC Listen.
0:05.0	Welcome to the palace of Lady Pippington and Lord Bousery.
0:09.0	The place is a buzz because tonight there will be a royal wedding of the highest social order.
0:15.0	Guests are pouring in from all over the country, arriving by horse and carriage to enjoy what's guaranteed to be the high society event of the season.
0:25.3	The Palace staff have been working tirelessly for weeks to prepare everything.
0:30.1	Speaking of, there's two of them now.
0:32.6	The Palace but La Cal, and the Court Jesta Molly have just finished 17 hour shifts
0:38.6	and are catching their breath as they watch the guests arrive.
0:55.4	Oh boy I am naked. I've been cleaning and setting tables and organizing the catering and arranging the seating for this wedding, tis a busy life, that of a butler.
0:57.9	Man, I am spent as well.
1:00.1	I have been non-stop writing jokes and songs and comedy routines all for the wedding later.
1:06.0	My brain is fried, yet satisfied.
1:09.6	Oh, oh, oh, look at me, I can't turn my poetic mind off. You're truly born for this.
1:15.4	How marvelous that we get a break now. And look who's just arriving.
1:20.1	The gentleman Harrison Hernandez has brought his ibethen hound.
1:24.6	Remember when I trained it to jump through hoops in my backflip act?
1:28.2	This is so exciting, a royal wedding right here in the palace we work at. I know it's so fancy. Oh, oh,
1:36.3	look over there. That's the marriage celebrant. The lady who'll be doing the marrying.
1:42.0	Ahem. Hi there, I'm Molly, the court jester.
1:46.0	Just wanted to say I'm a huge fan of the work you do.
1:50.0	Why thank you, I'm very much looking forward to it.
1:53.4	Wow I love your carriage. Is that real gold around the door?
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