Those designated as professional workers only exploit their diplomas
If we mention that a distinction between professional and simple work results in social inequalities, we know the answer we will get from the collectivists. They will speak of āscientific socialismā; they will quote bourgeois economists, and Marx too, to prove that a scale of wages has its raison dāĆŖtre, as āthe labour forceā of a professional worker will cost more to society than the ālabour forceā of the simple worker, and because the means to make a professional worker is greater than that necessary to make a simple worker.
But if so-called profesional workers are paid ten or a hundred times more than a simple worker, it is not because of their ācost of productionā, but by reason of a monopoly of education, or a monopoly of industry. Professional workers merely exploit their capitalātheir diplomasāas employers exploit a factory, or as nobles used to exploit their titles of nobility (see the wealth of the rich is derived from the poverty of the poor).
References
- Kroptokin, Peter. (1892). The Conquest of Bread Chapter 13. The Collectivist Wages System (p. 223).