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Orlando Enrique Fiol

In article >,
writes:
>>They are paid what they are worth in our free - market system...same as with
everyone else.

Who decides what each worker's time, labor and expertise are worth? In most
cases, workers certainly don't; we're beholden to the "free market" economy
that all too often either disadvantages or entirely eliminates us. I'm totally
blind with an ivy league Ph.D. in music theory. No institution has been willing
to take a chance and hire me, ostensibly because I lack collegiate teaching
experience. Well, to all the search committee smarty-pants, how is any
candidate supposed to acquire requisite experience if every institution denies
them employment? Are we supposed to build our own universities in order to give
ourselves teaching experience?