Are you sure of that? What do you call "private property"?
Of course I can. In a healthy society both job are necessary, no matter how hard you need to prepare for them. The value that you get from it might be different yeah, but the ethical necessity not to hierarchize these job is fundamental.
If you create a hierarchy in term of payment, you then consider that two people working the same amount should be payed differently. This is capitalism and the start of inequalities and exploitation. This is also how people justify inequalities that the fact that some people, while poor, stay poor while other, can be rich.
You see, what you are not taking into account is that in our society, no everyone can be a doctor. You need what we call "capitals" (
social, economic, cultural etc.) to access such education. So by paying more these jobs when there is already an inequality of access, you create a double process of inequality and you create the promise that if you are poor, you will stay poor (
unless of a miracle)
Reality under capitalism does not reward efforts, it does not reward skill, it rewards capitals. Meritocracy is a myth
This is why we need to pay the same amount for the two types of work, even if they require different skills and one, a better preparation. It's necessary to keep an equality of income.
For the rest, under socialism, the value you will get from these work will not necessarily related to money. That's why I'm telling you that your current reading grid is capitalist biased. You need to shift it if you want to understand why people will go for said or said type of work, even if they are difficult or not..
Spoiler: Under socialism, a neurosurgeon could also be a garbage cleaner and find purpose in both work.
Again, your vision is capitalistic and meritocratic. If you want to understand what I'm talking about here, you need to project yourself into a non capitalist society were the need for competition is gone.
A little precision (from Marx):
Marx is actually talking about the "bourgeois property", in other words, the private ownership of the means and chain of production. Like I said before, under communism/socialism (
call it whatever), you will be able to own private object and stuff. You simply won't have the power to exploit others.
Yup