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Objections to Davis-Moore

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Critics answer that reward tracks power rather than functional importance, that many essential occupations are poorly paid, and that unequal starting points prevent the sorting the thesis assumes.

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Work a society cannot function without is often among its least rewarded.

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The objection targets the thesis's mechanism, and it does not deny that positions differ.