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Letter to the editor: Wages published
The following letter is in response to the article “LACCD salaries save money” published Nov. 30, 2011:
Thank you for your piece on LACCD salaries. There has been much criticism lately of the top richest 1% and their large salaries. If you Google-search “Rich-O-Meter” and click the Wall Street Journal blog, you will see that college teachers earning $100K (or more) are in fact within the top .1% (yes, that’s a decimal point) of the wealthiest people globally.
Having explained this reality let me say this: I completely support and applaud my fellow teachers for their economic success, and the personal sacrifice it took to get there. As I repeat every semester in my courses, we can all be wealthy. One simply has to defer immediate consumption, invest seven to ten years additional time while remaining desperately poor without a car and living in crappy apartments, and slowly build up the skills needed for a high-yield career (chemical engineering, molecular biology, neuroscience, motion picture production, cybersecurity, genetics, etc).
The game of survival is not a zero-sum game nor a matter of class warfare, it is an individual choice.
