MLA’s recommended salaries

[mahagonny]

I'm pretty sure I'm not a "pure free-market type", if that means very little government regulation, low taxes, etc.

Sure you are, Marshy. You get paid way, way more than the average adjunct professor, and you think that's fair.

[mahagonny]

Expected living standard comes into play when people are really scraping the bottom, such as working for $8 or $9 an hour; or for $1000 per course as an adjunct. The insecurity that comes with such low pay can be considered unseemly.

The social justice activists who make a handsome living as academics and academic administrators have already thought of a way around that: adjunct pay is extra money ('part-time').

[marshwiggle]

I'm pretty sure I'm not a "pure free-market type", if that means very little government regulation, low taxes, etc.

Sure you are, Marshy. You get paid way, way more than the average adjunct professor, and you think that's fair.

I don't understand; I get paid the going rate around here. (I recall other Canadian posters  indicating similar rates.) If the rate weren't worth it, I wouldn't do it. What is "fair" is in the eye of the beholder; i.e. each individual has to decide whether what's on offer is reasonable. I don't really have an idea of what I would consider "fair" universally. (Or if that would even be a meaningful concept.)

[mleok]

I'm pretty sure I'm not a "pure free-market type", if that means very little government regulation, low taxes, etc.

Sure you are, Marshy. You get paid way, way more than the average adjunct professor, and you think that's fair.

What are you suggesting, that Marshy refuse to be paid more than the lowest paid adjunct professor in solidarity? Along the lines of not turning onto other academics, I find this "purity test" attitude to people who could potentially be allies to your cause to be puzzling. The bottom line is that even with the "conservatives" on this forum, the level of discourse is still relatively civil, and if one cannot defend one's point of view against these critics, then there is no hope of that surviving the scrutiny of the population at large.

[lightning]

I'm pretty sure I'm not a "pure free-market type", if that means very little government regulation, low taxes, etc.

Sure you are, Marshy. You get paid way, way more than the average adjunct professor, and you think that's fair.

You need to take your own advice, Mahagonny.

on edit: OK, I mean, more like this. At some point wouldn't you think, "who cares if white people other faculty getting paid fairly take their privilege for granted. Can't I say 'screw you, I'm gonna make it without your help, 'cause you can't keep a good man down.'" I would expect to see some of that attitude at some point. I actually wonder about it. I don't think Harriott Mahagonny writes about anything but the ubiquitous persecution of blacks adjunct faculty. How about rock collecting playing some guitar?