Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Your salary doesn’t say how much you’re worth, but it still says a lot.


None of us are numbers. We all contribute an infinite and inestimable value to the world. But sometimes, it’s hard to stop a salary figure from weighing on your sense of worth.

Michael Bradley, a Australian author, lawyer and founder of the firm Marque, has plenty to say on the damaging disparity between salary level and human worth.

He spoke at the Future of Work conference in Melbourne this week and stunned us with plenty of truth bombs, like this one:

“Money as a necessity transforms into a measure of worth because it’s one of only two things that are objective external signifiers of our value: money and status.”