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Stop corporations from buying homes and prices will normalize.
punish them for trying. we live in a culture of violence, anything less than staggering exemplary violence is inadequate.
people have already died over this, I just want some of them to be guilty.
Teachers should get a 75% discount on all housing costs.
I’m amazed it’s not triple.
We would have to first value education, and that counts for parents and home life as well.
Instead, we’re at war with education trying to water it down as much as possible if not outright eliminate it.
We do value education. Look at how much people are willing to pay for private school when they can afford it.
We just don’t value education of other people’s children. That wouldn’t be a good competitive advantage for our own spawn.
Or so many people think. I personally love the idea of education for everyone as it means fewer people resorting to crime with no other option. But an educated populace is a threat to many powerful institutions, so they convince their sheep to vote against it.
I have no kids, but I want strong education…
Because I don’t want to live in a society where everyone’s fucking stupid
The wild thing is that it gets even worse at the college level. Adjuncts get like $25k per year. It’s not much better for temporary faculty, etc. It’s a steep pyramid with admins and football coaches far away at the top.
My side gig is teaching at a major university as part of a third-party contract with outside businesses. I’m still university faculty, so have to do all the HR training, maintain my credentials, etc, but my pay is a little different…
The university literally doesn’t pay us for the classes. The syltudents have to pay a $215 “lab fee” directly to us that’s split between me and the business. So I get paid $107.50 person student per semester while the University gets paid about $3,000. Our business provides the staff, facilities, course materials, and even the liability insurance, so the university’s only real expenses are having the course listed and taking the tuition money.
My official title at the University is “Lecturer : Unpaid”