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Originally posted by CarolinaDG
Yes, and my cousin started his own business and was making 6 figures at 19. It doesn't seem fair, but it happens.
And there are lawyers that charge $300/hour. In my area, actually. And I know this because we recently had to find one for a girl who had to go to court for a DUI. My point is that there are careers where the revenues are much higher, so the salaries are much higher. Let's take NBA basketball, for one. I find it extremely unfair that someone can do something that is a GAME and make that much money off of it. But the fact of the matter is that there are people who pay 100's of dollars for one Lakers ticket, and that's how they get their money, and that's why there are superstar athletes who went to Duke who could have been doctors or lawyers or *gasp* teachers that are playing basketball. Now if we could get people to pay that much to have a good teacher in a school, we'd be in business.
I was a music education major for what seems like a second (actually, a semester). I did it because I wanted to go into music business and at NYU the program is in the education school. Anyway, the band director at USC came in and said that he was upset that people ever think of his career as a "fall back" career. But the truth is that there are teachers out there that are people who used it as a fall back. We all know the professors that we had in college like that. The ones that tried to make their way as an economist and couldn't do it. Because unfortunately it IS one of the careers that you go to school, you get the right education, and people (in some areas) will hire you in a heartbeat. Which is why we have sucky teachers around and underpaid good ones.
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How is it unfair what an NBA player makes? The market determines that rate. If anything it's unfair that they don't make more given how much money they make for the owners. It's even more unfair that a white university takes a black basketball player and robs him of millions for the rest of the university, its leagues, and the NCAA.
There are also teachers and tutors that are paid handsomely, but not many. You don't get rich from teaching. Why should you? Should everyone just be paid incredibly well from pool boys to teachers to lawyers and bankers?
Again, you don't need to be a nuclear physicist to be a teacher. You are teaching young kids how to subtract and divide, not launch a fricking rocket.
Not only do they get decent wages, but they get great benefits like long ass vacations and a union that is so strong it bullies governments to the detriment of students. You can go on and on about how teachers don't always make decent wages, but you can do that about everything. The average wage of a teacher is high enough.
-Rudey