And yet my most professional teachers were not paid for teaching.
I'm not advocating lowering the paycheck to increase the professionalism; just highlighting how phantom money are in this equation
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True. I used to teach at a technical school, oh, a quarter century ago now. Seats were something like $500 per person, and I would have a class of 14 to 18 students. So $7,000 to $9,000 worth of tuition per day.
I was making $18 an hour, IIRC? $144 a day?
OH! AND I had to wear a suit and tie every day. So in addition to the usual expenses, there were also drycleaning bills.
After 9/11 class size shrunk to 2-3 people a day and the school went out of business.
This person is soooo close to figuring out that the problem is capitalism. This is capitalism working as intended.
As we all know, you can't make a critique of capitalism without including "capitalism bad" in your critique.
Similar to Poe's Law I guess... I couldn't tell if the post was intentionally making a point, or if the person was just making observations. Given the average level of intelligence that I usually see on the internet, I assumed the latter.
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Two words:
Record Profits
Yeah baby!!
Line goes up, grandpa and kiddo can just go to the crappier nursing home and daycare and you can work a little harder can't you!?
Now if you'll excuse me, but I've got some senators dicks to suck
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Hospitals will ruin your life but most of the staff lives paycheck to paycheck.
Not just the staff either, providers are making significantly less every year.
I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation, and even though the cost of school, licensing, and insurance has skyrocketed. My field is basically being paid the same amount they were 30 years ago, and that's not even accounting for inflation.
In some ways it's nice, as medicine doesn't attract people who are just in it for the money any longer. But, hospital organizations now know that providers are basically locked in a sunk cost fallacy to pay back their loans, and on top of that they have a calling for it.
But, hospital organizations now know that providers are basically locked in a sunk cost fallacy to pay back their loans, and on top of that they have a calling for it.
Sounds like slavery with extra steps.
Sounds like slavery with extra steps.
Aka a residency
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That is the main reason my wife and I are moving to a different state. As a nurse, she has seen her income decrease with her 1.5% raise with inflation going up 3-5% year over year.
Hope she cashed in during COVID. Our hospital administration was trying to get everyone to turn on all the nurses making bank during lock down, but pretty much every provider I know was just happy there were people hitting the administration where it hurts.
I used to work as a building superintendent in a condo. I did the math and the corporation brought in around half a million a month in maintenance fees and the operating costs aren't anywhere that high. I used to get paid minimum wage. I did the math on the amount of units in comparison to my paycheck. It was something like a dollar per unit was going towards my pay. So whenever anyone acted like I should bend over backwards for them, I remembered that their particular issues and complaints were only worth $1 to me
In the condo and building maintenance industry, the less you do the more you make, the super and cleaners do everything and get paid shit, the manager and offsite manager's boss make a fortune
So whenever anyone acted like I should bend over backwards for them
In theory, there should have been a dozen of you with what they were paying. That's something they failed to understand (or refused to understand) as tenants. It is - at some level - something they needed to be made more aware of.
Renters can and do unionize. And when both renters and apartment workers realize they share economic interests, they can exert a ton of leverage over a building that has effectively been abandoned by its official title holder.
the super and cleaners do everything and get paid shit, the manager and offsite manager’s boss make a fortune
It's all a pyramid scheme.
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Admin and c-suite taking huge salaries and sucking companies, schools and agencies dry.
Eat the middlemen