| > Please do cursory searches for data to backup what you imagine to be true. This is pretty off-putting, especially given a few glaring factual errors in your own post. >> Nurses make good money. > On average, no. NP average annual salary: 95,523 USD PA average annual salary: 98,180 USD RN average annual salary: 67,490 USD IDK what "good money" means, but ALL of these are paid much better than average for their respective levels of education. And certainly, beat out e.g. what a fresh BA/BS would make at a place like Edward Jones or Bank of America. Hell, my first SE job offers were lower than the RN average, and I certainly felt like that was "good money"! >> Comparing teachers and police officers to hedge fund guys is weird > Weird is a strange way of saying "accurate". Again, offputting. Quants at hedge funds often have Ph.D.s in hard sciences from top universities. Comparing across vastly different pedigrees is no representative. Why not compare apples to apples? >> Education or law enforcement consultant/vendor/leader > Whatever that means. Yes again, offputting. What I meant is this. Leader: Superintendents rarely make less than $150,000 and make up to $N00,000 which, especially with CoL adjustments, is often better pay than the 200,000+ salary ranges typical for quants at hedge funds. Vendor: And those are just the public sector jobs. A LOT of money is made in selling education products. Do you really think the CEO of Pearson is living in the poor house? Just like literal bankers (people who sit in banks) are a very small fragment of what we think of as "banking", literal teachers are a very small fragment of people employed in education and literal police officers are a very small fragment of people employed in law enforcement. > Google 'largest banks', and assume annual profit to be about 10-20% of their assets. Over 94% of farms in the US are family owned, so I don't know what you think you mean by farming companies. I don't need to guess, I know that there isn't a single farming-related company one that comes close to the banks in terms of profits, assets, or valuation. This is super offputting because you're taking on an extremely condescending tone and haven't even bothered to do the research yourself. Cargill, for example, is family owned and pulls in 114.7 _B_illion in revenue. (For reference, BoA, America's largest bank, pulls down 87.352 Billion in revenue.) "Family owned" doesn't mean what you think it means in American farming. Many "family owned" argi businesses (including actual farms) are really freaking huge operations. > This disturbing feudal system is mirrored across multiple industries. Wait. This is literally exactly the point I was trying to make in my original comment. The feudal system also exists in banking and in lawyerings, and the top rung of the education hierarchy is doing extremely well while the lowest rung of banking or lawyering is barely scraping by. Maybe if you'd engaged politely with me instead of getting pissed off... |
Ironic, given you started with none. I standby the response, as appropriate commentary.
> IDK what "good money" means,
I don't know either, but that's irrelevant to the topical subject of comparison (not equivocating over 10% here or there in difference).
> Again, offputting.
That is often the case, when you are demonstrably wrong and have to deal with the realization.
> This is super offputting because you're taking on an extremely condescending tone and haven't even bothered to do the research yourself.
The income of Cargill offset by costs is not 114 billion. That's just gross. It has a fraction of that income as opposed to the incomparable bank nets.
> Wait. This is literally exactly the point I was trying to make in my original comment.
You failed and started with talking about how blue collar workers are fine and comparisons to white collar management is unfair, which is frustratingly disingenuous. Good luck with whatever.