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> I admire the guy for choosing to do more important work and making sacrifices to do it. But I'm not owed a decent salary in return for following my own dreams rather than my employer's dreams. Nobody is.

Students at public universities deserve good instructors. Stop applying a capitalist market rationale to public services.

Are you one of those people who thinks that whatever price the market offers for labor is axiomatically fair?

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> Stop applying a capitalist market rationale to public services.

We're discussing wages. Wages are all about that rationale. If you make a choice you should abide by it.

This is nothing to do with what students "deserve", whatever that means.

Public services? Isn't that exactly why he is paid less.

Just imagine if he worked somewhere private.

Deserve is an interesting phrase, who really does deserve more? The more you go down that rabbit hole the less you'll think people deserve in general.

That said. I only have an associate degree and even I made $70k at a regular tech job working with someone with a PhD. I got lucky though before, too bad he didn't.

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