Uh, dude, we have professors on ******* FOOD STAMPS now.
Forget minimum wage, some adjunct professors say they're making 50 cents an hour. Wait till you read these stories
www.salon.com
The money isn't going to the professors, stupid.
In a recent survey, they based the average salary of a college professor at $63,000 a year, plus very good benefits. Like any other profession, you work your way to better jobs if you are worth a shit. A community college professor is not going to make anything near what a professor at Yale makes.
Now if you weren't stupid, you would have read the exchange instead of just reading my comment and shooting your mouth off. I never said government should limit what a professor should make. The person I made the comment to was asking how government could actually limit professors salaries. I was merely giving an example. I believe and have always believed that a person should be be paid whatever the market will allow. That means if Walmart can pay a person $7.50 to sweep floors, then that's what they should pay, just like I think if a college professor can make $500,000 a year, the that's what they should get paid if the market allows it.
Okay, here's the problem with that theory. As I said, when I went to UIC back in the 1980's, right after High School, I paid about $1500 a year. I worked two minimum wage jobs for about 35 hours a week. This was enough to pay tuition. You could pay tuition working 10 hours a week at a Min Wage job. I didn't have to because I was also in the National Guard at that time and they picked up tuition. (I later went active duty after college and frankly, got a lot more out of the Army than I did out of college.)
The reason why that was possible was back in the day, most of U of I's operating expenses were picked up by the state.
Today, most of the cost of a university like UIC is shouldered by the students. Tuition is about $13,000 a year for in-state students. You'd have to work a minimum wage job for 30 hours a week. .
No, the problem is really supply and demand. When I was a kid, in a classroom of about 35 students, maybe ten or fifteen actually went to college. Today, nearly everybody in a class goes. Back in the 70's, you could get out of high school and make very good money being a UPS driver, work at an auto plant, work in the steel mills. College was not a necessity as it is today because there were a lot of blue collar jobs that one could easily make a living at.
Today, many blue collar jobs are lower pay. This is why people need an education or trade to make it in the US. Nobody is going to pay you 50K a year plus great benefits to turn nuts onto bolts, or to inspect parts from a die stamp machine.
Again, you are someone who never went to college, and whose whole professional competency was driving a truck, which the government won't let you do now because you are a danger to yourself and others.
Yes, because your Gods (bureaucrats) stated so. Much like you, they know more than the doctors.
You don't have to go to college to look at a problem and come up with a reasonable solution. I didn't go to college, but my niece and nephew have. They were in debt until their early 30's, and my sister and her ex the same way for taking out loans on top of the loans their kids took. If not for their very wealthy Uncle passing away (a college teacher) two years ago, they would probably have been in debt into their late 30s.
I don't live in the past like you do. People change, society changes, circumstances change, and you have to find solutions to the problems these changes may bring. As Ronald Reagan once said, government is not the solution to our problem--government is the problem. My suggestion of living at home for a couple years and going to college later may not be the total solution, but it's a better solution than going into debt for four years, and having to pay on that debt for 15 or 20 years.
