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by ClumsyPilot 1993 days ago
The whole point of my post was that we need the best teachers in the classrooms, not tutoring a few select rich kids.
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Your original claim was that the teaching profession is systematically underpaid but in fact you’re talking about a very specific set of public sector employees whose compensation is more complex than just annual salary.
This 'very spesific set' is like 90% of all teachers.

The argument was -you cannot get away underpaying developers, you get crap develipers and crap code. But compare teaching outcomes, and you will see that countries with better paid teachera have better outcomes in primary education, so we are suffering the consequences in both cases. Its just that we've chosen different tradeoffs

I haven’t made any arguments. You may be confusing me with someone else on the thread? In any case, the outrageously paid developers are probably less than 10% of all software engineers, especially if you consider that foreign engineers are part of the labor pool in a way foreign teachers are not.