I knew that I would find something in the article like this: “Teaching has long been a career path with notoriously low wages,”.
There is this thing that regulates the prices of everything and it’s called “the law of supply and demand.” The more you make, the more you spend and if the market can’t afford your product or service, they won’t buy or rent it. Consequently, the price will float to the level that it can be afforded.
Our society can blame itself for the out of control price increases for everything. It’s due to a factor that came into place after the early 1960s.
It used to be that daddy worked and “brought home the bacon” and mom raised the children. Most families were single income and most only had one vehicle.
Then, later in the 60’s, women were “unchained” so to speak and threw off the burdensome yoke of being a parent and went to work because it was socially expected. Well, guess what...now the family had two incomes and could afford another car and all other types of goodies. Better than that, the kids could raise themselves...and we see how well that worked out.
Well, the market responded to the extra income by reacting to this amazing rise in purchasing power and the price of everything started to rise to the level of resistance. People howled and gnashed their teeth but still paid the higher prices for everything simply because they continued purchasing what was before them.
Now it’s reached a point that they expect the government to do something about housing and rental expenses and expect something to be done about it...never thinking the law of supply and demand ever existed. The fact is that you have to live your life with what you can afford and eventually prices will float to the level of acceptance.
This statement is false, and if it ever was true it was a long time ago. Ms. Hanna is just parroting her leftist roots.
Entry level teaching for those fresh out of school *may* be low paying, especially in small town USA, but that is no longer true in any urban area, nor most suburbs.
Bilingual teachers, math and science teachers can pretty much choose their jobs and their signing bonuses, at almost any urban district in the US.
Keep in mind that such criticism of teaching ignores the fact that most teaching jobs are unionized, which means the wages of all non-management types are collectively bargained. The entry level teachers are poorer because the older teachers (who become the union leaders) give away any earning potential in return for lavish salaries and pensions for the “survivors” with long tenure. Especially the union leaders!
It's a canard and a lie by Ms. Hanna.
Then again, I wonder what being a writer, a small (curious) human and a millennial pays ...
“The fact is that you have to live your life with what you can afford and eventually prices will float to the level of acceptance.”
I think there is far too much desire to own things just for the sake of owning things whether or not one has any real use for them. Most people I know have a mountain of stuff that they never use and the mini warehouse craze is mainly the result of people buying things they did not ever need, “storage wars” on TV developed out of this. People often rent storage buildings to store things they should have given away. I am trying to reduce my own mountain of useless stuff.
Uncontrolled immigration of Democrats is increasing demand for all kinds of expensive things. Control the borders and rents will normalize as will most everything else.