Besides the obvious answers people have stated, and I know there might be people who out there who might give me flak over this, but I really have felt that most teachers are indeed overpaid. (Or maybe, more accurately, it's just that so many of them aren't really that good.) Only a minority of the really good ones have I felt deserved it. Half of them I have ever seen are either mediocre going through the motions people to people just plain not that good at teaching (A few of them I will admit are under resourced or put in bad situations and it sometimes isn't there fault though.) and yet they get some of the very best vacation time due to the nature of the job, great benefits because it's a state job, and I have known some of them that have had a lot of seniority that are pushing 60 or 70 thousand dollars a year with would put them in the upper 1% where I'm at. Yet, I still had to hear about them complaining about how they are underpaid.
Some of the most underpaid people besides a lot of the people out there that due brutal back breaking labor for ridiculously low amounts of money, is paramedics. I don't know how it is everywhere, but I was almost shocked when I learned just how little some of them make, with a good portion of them making barely above minimum wage. For a job where it's your responsibility to save people's lives and keep them from dying that's pretty sad.
One thing I know for sure is that our market is broken. Both in the economic sense, and in the sense of fairness, but also ethical and morally. The rate of pay for a job is not alright just because somebody is willing to do it. That is one of the things people, especially capitalist people or businesses need to realize and accept. It's usually just a path to rationalize exploitation.
I also have to laugh when some people assume that all the people that are poor out there are that way because of their own fault or that they deserve it. Usually when somebody says that I can almost always walk down the street and find multiple people that worked just as hard as them and ended up with nothing or at least a lot worse off. People that have it better are almost always a recipient of favorable conditions and circumstances and had luck in almost one way or another, even if that was just being born to the right people or just plain being in the right place at the right time.
Some of the most underpaid people besides a lot of the people out there that due brutal back breaking labor for ridiculously low amounts of money, is paramedics. I don't know how it is everywhere, but I was almost shocked when I learned just how little some of them make, with a good portion of them making barely above minimum wage. For a job where it's your responsibility to save people's lives and keep them from dying that's pretty sad.
One thing I know for sure is that our market is broken. Both in the economic sense, and in the sense of fairness, but also ethical and morally. The rate of pay for a job is not alright just because somebody is willing to do it. That is one of the things people, especially capitalist people or businesses need to realize and accept. It's usually just a path to rationalize exploitation.
I also have to laugh when some people assume that all the people that are poor out there are that way because of their own fault or that they deserve it. Usually when somebody says that I can almost always walk down the street and find multiple people that worked just as hard as them and ended up with nothing or at least a lot worse off. People that have it better are almost always a recipient of favorable conditions and circumstances and had luck in almost one way or another, even if that was just being born to the right people or just plain being in the right place at the right time.
