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Housing affordability is totally out of wack. You can’t base pay on that.

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It’s not totally out of wack for those profiting. In fact almost unaffordable housing is the goal of those who control housing. The idea is to find out what people absolutely can’t afford to pay for their basic human needs, then lower the price by a few bucks.

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Why not? It’s a thing that factors into cost of living.

What’s the alternative? Just wait until economists have declared the housing market is at some baseline of normalcy before determining pay? Do you really fail to see how rediculous that would be?

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housing is a core part of being a functional human. get your head out of your ass

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…in the USA.

A key piece of information missing from the title, which made it a waste of my time.

I don’t live in that country, and while I feel very much for the plight of any foreign education system in distress, I must focus my energy on things upon which I can affect positive change.

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I mean… It’s probably also true in Europe

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Ah yes Europe, my favorite singularly governed country.

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By that, I meant “It’s probably also true in European countries”. You must be fun at parties.

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Teachers are fairly decently paid where I live but the job is shit so nobody wants it. They don’t employ enough teachers so everyone is being worked to death, and they keep adding new admin tasks, reporting tools, standardised tests, etc that makes everything worse. Also they keep doing stupid reorganisations all the time.

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I agree that it’s not one of the worst paid jobs overall, but if you apply the logic of the headline, I’m pretty sure no teacher in Europe can buy a house with their income

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*in the greatest parts of europe, aka the balkans (how is the slovenian school system still decent?)

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Headlines like this are a good reminder of my prime directive: Don’t donate money to political parties. Both Harris and Trump have billionaires in their corner and they don’t need your money.

Instead, donate to your friends’ mutual aid requests or invest it in your own stocks and investments. These candidates aren’t going to do anything meaningful to change your station in life, but they will make a trillion dollars appear out of thin air overnight to avoid a major drop in the stock market and your $10-$20 could mean the difference between skipping a day of food and eating for someone you know and love.

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they will make a trillion dollars appear out of thin air overnight

that’s the federal reserve, which does what it wants and doesn’t answer to anyone, including the president

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Thank you for adding information to my post. Have a nice evening.

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NO KINGS, NO GODS, ONLY FEDS.

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The fed chairman is nominated by the president… But more importantly the fed and the president almost never disagree, even under different presidents. That’s because every president is first and foremost a servant of capital.

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I haven’t seen anything to suggest that the fed “chairman” is anything more than a public talking head to give the impression that the government has something to do with what the fed does.

it doesn’t matter whether potus, or anyone agrees with them

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US Teachers should have optional free on-campus housing. Single dorms & free high quality cafeteria food.

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The general problem with housing as a job benefit is that it makes you even more dependent on that particular job. It’s the same problem as with employer-provided health care.

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Teachers should get a 75% discount on all housing costs.

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