link to original reddit post by /u/mrpenguin_86
I'm sure you all hear this refrain way too often. Someone says some occupation whose employees are extremely vocal about how important their job is and how much they claim to struggle really needs to be paid more, but you ask them how much you think they get paid, and they have no idea. You see this overwhelmingly applied to teachers and nurses because they love to air their grievances on social media and said by people who are progressive. My father runs a tax prep business, and he has a lot of teachers and nurses among his clientele. The teachers all make at least $60k (this is in Cali but in the crappy part, where housing and most prices are similar to the rest of the US), and the nurses make similar or higher depending on their rank. The pensions are also great (anyone with CALPERS is usually making bank).
But back to the point, I never see anyone say a profession should get paid more and also actually know how much they get paid. No profession should ever get paid more than it generally gets paid because in a free market, people voluntarily join and leave a profession, thus dictating the salary society is valuing a profession at. So, if your profession's salary starts at $20k/year and people readily sign up for it despite alternatives, that's what your job's value to society is.