If the schools, colleges in particular, do a good job of training staff, then businesses should pay for what they bring to the workplace. Instead, many people insist that jobs should pay enough to recover money spent on the schooling process regardless of the impact that schooling has on the job.
If we automatically paid people based on how much they spent to get a job, we are effectively allowing people to buy pay raises. This is unethical and detrimental to those who can’t justify buying pay raises. It can ultimately widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
What if someone learned how to do a job outside of school? Should we punish him? The idea of paying people based on how much they learned within the schools promotes discrimination against those who learn elsewhere. It also provides discouragement for independent learners who want to take full responsibility over their educations. You could be the world’s greatest at a task, and have your employer insist that they can’t pay you as much as a potentially incompetent college graduate. That’s not how things should work.
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