> Women's wages, for example, are very easily suppressed by a cultural racket that tells us the kinds of jobs they do (teacher, nurse, etc) are not very valuable.
Aren't nurses making six figures (or close) in the US?
Re: teachers - currently in many countries teaching is organized as a slacker's paradise - everybody makes the same amount of money (barring seniority etc.), there is very little accountability for results of the work, teachers are guaranteed job for life etc. This, at least in my country (Poland), more or less attracts people who are slackers or burnt-out in other jobs. As teachers, they do shit job and get paid ok amounts of money, which is a fair deal for them (as otherwise many of them would leave). Meanwhile, everyone who cares about their child actually learning something (i.e. parents who want to send child to good university with entrance tests) purchases private tutoring - this is where the real learning happens.
Aren't nurses making six figures (or close) in the US?
Re: teachers - currently in many countries teaching is organized as a slacker's paradise - everybody makes the same amount of money (barring seniority etc.), there is very little accountability for results of the work, teachers are guaranteed job for life etc. This, at least in my country (Poland), more or less attracts people who are slackers or burnt-out in other jobs. As teachers, they do shit job and get paid ok amounts of money, which is a fair deal for them (as otherwise many of them would leave). Meanwhile, everyone who cares about their child actually learning something (i.e. parents who want to send child to good university with entrance tests) purchases private tutoring - this is where the real learning happens.