I just saw a chyron with poll results from “US adults” wherein almost 50% of the respondents agreed that ALL teachers should be paid more. I should say!....I’ve been told that ^OFTEN^ by my teachers for 50 decades!
My pre-law prof in college used to opine that congress-critters were underpaid for their efforts. On his sabbatical during my senior year, he ran for federal office.
How can the wealthiest country in the world not afford to pay its teachers? It's all coming together now. The bigger question is, given the technological improvements of the last 50 years, why isn't the U.S. far wealthier than it is? How could it be that average wages have not increased in 40 years?
Now it's becoming clear that the elite -- aided and protected by our own CIA -- have been skimming the cream and a significant fraction of the milk from our economy for decades (and centuries before).
The old-time conspiracy theorists were on the right track.
Most are overpaid for what they do now but, I suppose that raising all of their wages just before we close the buggy whip factory cant hurt bottom line too badly.