they should, but they don't. you can't build a future on what should be. you build it on what is. you have to go where the money is if you want to make money. should artists be paid more too? if you want a financially stable life you don't pursue art.

I live in reality man. I don't live in this lemmy revolutionary mindset that one day soon things will magically get better and everyone will become a communist/socialist and low wage menial jobs will suddenly be lucrative. I've also known plenty of 'leftists' who once they get 35 or own property... become rabid capitalists. funny how economic reality tends to defeat people's youthful idealism once they stop being young and have to pay their own way in life. a lot of the 'anti capitalist anarchist' i know who went on about how landlords were evil.... now own multiple properties and complain about their tenants not paying enough rent and keep jacking the rates 5-10% every year.

most of the former teachers I known have all quit because they wanted a livable wage. They mostly went into publishing or technology or healthcare. If they were women and they married a wealthy guy so they could continue to teach. Part of the reason there are so few male teachers anymore is because men can't expect to find a partner to pay their bills for them, they are expected to pay the bills, and they understand teaching doesn't pay the bills anymore.