Powerline assesses the New Yorker union webpage. His favorite line (and mine) is "prestige without the pay is élitist." If you don't pay me a wage commensurate with my staggering prestige, you force me to taint myself with elitism, and that would be wrong.
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So... prestige plus pay is surely more elitist, right? The obvious course for avoiding elitism is to eliminate the prestige, not to increase the pay.
I have seen this in other places. Social work has the second-lowest GRE scores for graduate school (Education is worse) and the workload is the lowest of all, yet I repeatedly heard MSW's complain at how unfair life was because they weren't paid as much as people with other Master's degrees. It's very Screwtape, isn't it?
I have a relative who resented how little she was paid as a social worker. She also was proud of her willingness to choose a job without reference to whether she could make a good living doing it, and very willing to accept financial help from someone who lost prestige by doing a less attractive job that paid better. It all amounts to finding a way to feel good about cadging.
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