Originally Posted By: crinkles
Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
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What's scary is that these academic economists share my take and enhance the views that I hold. The scary part is that she adds that they all seem to be tied to the works of Marx.
I feel vindicated.
You would
I wish there was ONE person that could be indited for Capitalism. I think that if he were judged by the noble performance of it in our contemporary democratic republic ..that he would be burned in effigy.
yet you advocate capitalistic absolute free market systems to pay teachers (and oil changers, and firemen, and and and) less to work in bad neighborhoods?
Not at all. If this nation is losing money, why do some deserve to achieve even higher gains in the midst of a declining market?
That is, if business is "bad" ..doesn't common sense dictate that all who are endeared to the enterprise suffer the byproducts of the losses (which are actually ..lower gains)? If we have only 1% growth ..or 10% loss ..do not all those who factored their worth sensibly contour their relative worth along those lines? If not, why not? If you run up one ladder under one set of rules, why would one expect not to be subjected to the same rules in retreat?
The same applies to all who are on the public dole. All of EVERYTHING is paid for by producers. Less producers of merit ..less revenue to work with.
In the case of teachers, just why should they be exempt from the effects of the economy one way or the other? What product do they have to deliver that adds value to the environment that they extract their living from?
If they do, in fact, enhance the environment that they make a living from in terms of tangible worth, then being tied to the state of the local economy assures that they will prosper along the lines of their performance. Make brilliant contributing members of the community ...they'll make a better community, right? That should allow them to produce their own prosparity, right?
..but one could say, "..but what if all the geniuses leave the hamlet for greener pastures?" ..and we're still left asking the producers in THAT community need to keep teachers/administrators in some lofty perch ..while they will continue to suffer the pitfalls inherent to that environment.
In our contemporary public education environment here, the incumbents, who are heavily weighted in the typical demographic, swell their compensation packages ..and sacrifice the entrance level teachers. While with no more than a 4 year college education in terms of personal investment (and compensated continuing education) you can make about $65/year for a 9 month contract. You can teach Macbeth for the 3000th time at a masters level and take the summer off.
They will cite comparatives with accountants and engineers ..but they didn't become accountants or engineers ..nor conductors ..nor taxicab drivers ..all of whom work 12 months and are subjected to just about every market force that there is.
They aren't in it for the good of humanity ..no more than my doctor and the pharmaceutical companies are in it for noble reasons.
