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Anon envies his wife's make believe job (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Locuralacura@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While I agree, and I am a part of my teachers union, I also don't see any evidence that teachers will suddenly become respected and well paid. Like, Suddenly we all realized that we should feel grateful that we can read. Nope.

My NGO, WFH friend thinks she is working hard. The reality is, in our current system, the harder one works the less one is going to make. For her she has a stable position in the NGO.

Their goal is to help save fisheries and wild fish stock. In reality she doesn't even know what salmon looks like unless it's on a bagel.

You think these billionaires are just a billion times more hard working? They are just manipulative, insular, myopic, and selfish. Those are the key ingredients to success in our system. Surprise surprise, they are the opposite characteristics that a good teacher requires.

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The reality is, in our current system, the harder one works the less one is going to make. For her she has a stable position in the NGO.

That's not her fault though so resenting people for who have these roles is indirectly resenting your own ability to achieve what they have. Billionaire employers are a different story because they're billionaires by virtue of those they employ. Overall the wealth gap between employers vs people like you and your friend who have to work everyday, regardless of what that entails, is wider than it's ever been. The problem isn't really that someone has a cushy job it's that those billionaires who do nothing are taxed lower than they've ever been and have your money, you're educating their future employees and they're not paying you/us a fair wage for that service they benefit from.