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  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…4mos4MO

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.)

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…4mos4MO

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.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…4mos4MO

Forcing people to pay higher salaries for teachers will result in schools being forced to fire a bunch of other teachers in order to afford the higher-paid ones, and/or a tax hike, which will result in everyday people keeping less of their earnings and thus spending less on goods and services, which will result in local companies making less money, and potentially having to lay off workers or raise prices, creating a ripple effect.

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…4mos4MO

Yet another reason that privatizing education below K-12 doesn’t, cannot, and must not happen. If the teachers are not being paid what they’re worth, their quality of teaching will drastically decrease, leading to nation-wide in efficiency, strikes, and teachers unions against this unfair pay. The end result even if you try this is the reinstatement of public education, because the government can actually afford to pay the teachers well enough.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…4mos4MO

Teachers will be paid what they're worth in the free market, under the price system, which determines wages based on the value of labor independently of government. The solution to inefficiency, strikes, and teacher unions is to fire inefficient teachers, fire strikers, and abolish teachers unions. I support the total privatisation of all education. Get the government out of it.

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