White Collar Privilege

[Midnight Writer]

3. I'm always astonished at working folk who complain that other working folk are overpaid.

Teachers are a big source of complaints.

I shut down a co-worker who was carrying on about teacher's pay. I asked him if he ever hired babysitters. Of course he did. How much does he pay them? $5 dollars an hour. Then take $5 an hour times 30-40 kids and teachers should be paid $150-200 an hour, right? And that's just to sit with them. Educating them should mean even higher pay. Amazingly, he said he had never thought of it that way and I never heard him talk of it again.