Yup. The world headquarters of capitalism is notorious for shortchanging anyone who’s passionate and/or idealistic enough about their profession to put up with it.
Plus the obscenely rich and powerful want to discourage learning, since a well informed and engaged populace would spell doom for everything that enables their excesses and abuse.
You’re directing your hate on a group of people largely working overtime and underpaid to provide an essential service, and not the system that put both of you in a place to where you are contributing to society but not adequately rewarded for that hard work.
Remember Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show?
Successfully suing Jim Henson for using agingelderly’s personality without permission is the only paying gig they ever had and it wasn’t a big payout since the case took place immediately after the 1975 pilot, long before the show became a success.
The poorest are those who help. Teachers, nurses, care providers, child care, service workers, retail employees.
If you want to be helpful you’re gonna pay for it.
Almost all these people make more than I did in my career, they are not the poorest by a long shot
Teachers make $40k-$60k a year depending on the region. They aren’t rich your job is bad.
*in the US
Must be an American thing. Where I live, teachers make 65k-110k depending on experience and position.
Yup. The world headquarters of capitalism is notorious for shortchanging anyone who’s passionate and/or idealistic enough about their profession to put up with it.
Plus the obscenely rich and powerful want to discourage learning, since a well informed and engaged populace would spell doom for everything that enables their excesses and abuse.
It’s also a thing in (parts of) Europe, too, unfortunately. Only college professors were paid decently. “Were” because I don’t have up-to-date info.
All I ever hear is “oh the poor teachers” when they get paid more than me, get way better benefits, and get away more time off. Fuck the teachers.
Someone out there is even worse off than you, and they might be saying “Fuck agingelderly.”
Unless they understand the actual problem, then they would be saying “Fuck billionaires” or maybe “Fuck Regan”.
Resenting other workers because they happen to be better compensated than you is the opposite of class consciousness.
You’re directing your hate on a group of people largely working overtime and underpaid to provide an essential service, and not the system that put both of you in a place to where you are contributing to society but not adequately rewarded for that hard work.
You had it even worse, by your standards they are rich, it’s a lavish lifestyle you were very poor your career was so bad
What career did you do?
Remember Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show?
Successfully suing Jim Henson for using agingelderly’s personality without permission is the only paying gig they ever had and it wasn’t a big payout since the case took place immediately after the 1975 pilot, long before the show became a success.
Uh… are those two the hecklers on the balcony? Or is that Sesame Street?
Yup, those are the ones!