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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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Stop going into fields that pay like shit. I don't really see the problem here.
You have graduate after graduate complain that the jobs in their field pay like crap... but you could easily have researched what the pay rate is for these careers before you even started your degree. If it isn't as much as you want to make, then find something better.
The problem is living in a society that doesn't educate it's people.
I'm not disputing that and I'm not saying that teachers shouldn't be paid more. You're missing what I am saying. I am simply stating that if money is a consideration (and it is for just about everyone), then you should be looking up what jobs pay in a certain field before you even start your studies. And this goes for more than just teaching. I hear this all the time of how people are surprised that X field pays like shit.... well how the fuck did you get through 2 or 4 or more years of school and not look up what the job prospects are?!?
Yeah, that's the advice. Just no one be a teacher. Great! Now what are all the kids going to do to get into their own fields?
Simple, all to the mines! Uranium is not gonna mine itself isn't it? /s
That's the beauty of supply and demand. If the supply of teachers goes down, then at some point the pay has to go up to fill that need.
Except it doesn't. The state controls the pay rate by law and people who pass those laws are also heavily invested in private education (see Devos). As a result they put more pressure on fewer teachers to push out an inferior product to drive them into private education.
Your bullshit idealized supply and demand curves don't work in the real world. Not when the whole market is tilted and closed off.
Yeah, except it does in states that run properly which is why my state has some of the highest paid teachers in the entire country. Maybe leave whatever shithole state you live in if you can't control what your legislators vote on. Or you know, get off your lazy ass and vote come next election cycle.
Uh no... the plan seems to be to replace teachers with home schooling using automated systems that have much more controllable curriculum. There is no longer a rush to replace with real people when automation is so cheap.
Also if everyone all looked at only the job that paid well that job would no longer pay well and it would be a shitty society while everyone figured out how to live without doctors, chefs, and all kinds of other roles where constant passing of knowledge is needed to keep things running smoothly.
And people have stopped going into education. I graduated with my BS with one other teacher in my field. So many, many schools in my state are just going without.
Why do we not want to encourage folks to develop the next generation? Do you really want a society of illiterate adults? Are you going to complain when the person at the cash register can’t count to twenty?