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For a librarian's salary, one could subsidize lots of internet for low income people.
by robrenaud 8y ago
For a librarian's salary, one could subsidize lots of internet for low income people.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoOr we could take the intelligent route and use taxes to pay for both.
- kaitai 8y agoLibraries in the US serve an enormous homeless population. "Subsidizing internet for low income people" is easy to say but does not address the practicalities of providing internet to the homeless, for instance.
- darpa_escapee 8y agoLibrarians do much more than look for and put books on shelves.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoI wonder how many people saying, "We don't need libraries and librarians" don't get this. Probably all of them. Maybe if they were to shadow a librarian for a couple days, they'd be on the same page.
- darpa_escapee 8y agoHell, all I had to do was overhear a few conversations between librarians and customers to dispel the misplaced idea I had that librarians were an archaic form of Google's search product. It's embarrassing to admit that, but it's the truth.
- eric_the_read 8y agoHave you looked at public librarian salaries lately? A senior-- senior, mind you-- librarian at the Colorado Springs Library District is being offered $25/hr. I don't recall for certain by now, but I'm pretty sure I made more than that my very first year out of school and I'm practically decrepit by this site's standards.
- GW150914 8y agoFor contrast, a cop makes 2-3 times that much per hour for directing traffic.
- darpa_escapee 8y agoHow many Netflix subscriptions could we subsidize if they were just replaced with a sign? /s