Oh, nooooooo!
Cutting six-figure salaries for teaching two classes each semester and actually making students pay the real cost of an education.... it’s too cruel!
Are you a professor? A researcher?
I taught in a grad student only program at an R1 school. In addition to my ‘2 classes a term,’ I wrote articles, presented at conferences, developed and held local conferences, performed research, advised students (including thesis students, which takes a lot of work), and sat on several committees a year. I also wrote and graded grad level exam questions for students outside my department, but in my area of expertise and sat on several grad student exam or thesis committees each year. I did not make 6 figures.
Those who teach in undergrad programs generally teach 3-5 classes a term. The amount of extra time they put in for research, etc. depends upon the type of school they are in, an R1 or a liberal arts college. What they don’t do in research, they do in advising student organizations, grading, advising, faculty & university committee membership, etc. Especially in the humanities, 6 figures would be a dream.
The academic world is not what you think it is. I know professors at all types of institutions in a diversity of fields. They work hard for their money. Some have developed marvelous computing tools and applications. Some ‘just’ bring the wonderful worlds of art and literature to their students, broadening their minds and horizons. No one is sitting at home eating bon bons.