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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Employment and salary is based on a market of supply and demand. People who have money try to pay the least to get the most. That is a fact of how capitalism works and it is indeed standard and right. If you want someone to give you money so you can have a better life when you haven't done anything to earn it, then you need to find charity, not a job. If you are not happy with that system, [b]you need to go live in a socialist country, like North Korea where they pay everyone about the same.[/b][/quote]

You are embarrassing yourself here.[b] I'd recommend you refrain from referencing foreign dictatorships until you've done some research.[/b]

I'm a well-paid, legal nanny with a BA from a top-10 school, five years of teaching experience, multi-lingual, qualified in several other fields, and I have both job satisfaction and great benefits as a nanny. So...yes, I'd say on that point you're correct - the supply and demand is working out well for me, just as it is for many other nannies. This argument that nannies should do more to improve themselves if they want to earn more is too inane to be offensive - do you really want the least educated, least intelligent, least ambitious person helping to raise your children? Or do you want to hire someone whose intellectual, academic, social, and emotional skills are on par with your own? If it's the latter, you'll pay a little more. If that's irrelevant to you, by all means, offer less - it's your choice, just like it's my choice to be a nanny. [/quote]

Also, are you attacking me because I called N. Korea socialist instead of communist? The two ideas are similar and although N. Korea is officially communist, they have a lot of socialist elements to which I was referencing. It's too bad I had to explain that to you. I would've expected more from someone with a "BA from a top-10 school."

-East Asian studies major from a top-3 (2?1?) school that begins with a H.[/quote]

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