@9H3VYWX6mos6MO
Teachers should be paid more if not the same because they do a lot more than professional athletes
@VulcanMan6 6mos6MO
Easy: teachers deserve extremely high pay because they are one of the most important and foundational jobs in society, whereas athletes do not deserve as high of pay because they are merely entertainers.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
Regardless of what they deserve, the free market must set all wages
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
The invisible hand is a myth, it’s damaging to assume that the free market will simply remain free without government intervention to prevent monopolies, or at least, keep them from doing horrible things. Even Adam Smith was okay with preventing monopolies, and he literally created the concept of Laissez-Faire.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Excuse me, but this is about wage controls, not monopolies. You are, again, switching the focus of the argument to make your position sound better.
And what Adam Smith actually proposed was preventing artificial monopolies that can only survive because of state intervention, he did not criticise monopolies that naturally arise in free market conditions, only those that depend, for their survival, upon government life support and corporate welfare that necessitates legalised plunder (aka taxation.)
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
And I am saying that the free market will fail to pay teachers for what they are actually worth. Now, I didn’t read the full conversation, that’s on me, but I still don’t trust the general market to decide how much a teacher gets paid.
@9H46SBW6mos6MO
I think a teacher deserves more because they are working their butts of to provide for their family
