We may never truly know the appropriate salary for any employee, given the large amount of market interference that public/government schooling brings with it.

We may never truly know the appropriate salary for any employee, given the large amount of market interference that public/government schooling brings with it. I'm not arguing for fully private schooling (though there are some interesting arguments for it), but pointing out that in any government controlled/dominated industry, the salary of any given employee may or many not have any correlation to their competency. Yes, this happens too in the private sector (dead-weight/overpaid employees exist in every industry), but we have engineered (politicized) our education system seemingly intentionally to produce these very outcomes. Due to the ultimate intractability of the question, I am reminded of a recent funny quote: "if we want to believe something, it will accrete a protective layer of positive studies whether it’s true or not." [1] [1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/04/adult-neurogenesis-a-pointed-review/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/04/adult-neurogenesis-a-po...