Back to Course OutlinePrinciples of Microeconomics
Lesson· Labor Markets· 6 of 11
The Tradeoff Between Fun and Wages
Alex TabarrokGeorge Mason University
If you had to choose, would you rather be a sewer inspector spending your days underground or a lifeguard on the beach? Most would say that being a lifeguard is a more fun job, but a sewer inspector has higher wages to compensate for the less-fun aspects of the job. In this video, we discuss the tradeoff between fun and wages and show how this illustrates that “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch!”