@akhilrao (i'm not sure this is quite responsive? basically, it's good to pay people, it makes their life better, and it's good for people to do work that makes other people's lives better. market valuation and remuneration of labor is one way to get those things, and it's great, but not sufficient or perfect. we should use other tools, funded by the public purse, rather than hope that quirks of bargaining power and cost diseases can somehow smudge away the flaws of private labor markets.) /fin