> just look at teachers unions, where pay is totally disconnected from competence and performance I think this is a poor example because the challenge exceptio

> just look at teachers unions, where pay is totally disconnected from competence and performance I think this is a poor example because the challenge exceptional teachers have is that it's really hard to prove their outcomes in a short time-span. It might be 10, 20, 30 years before it becomes clear that a teacher had a large positive impact on the world, and by then they likely won't be around to collect a bonus. Compare this to say, a trader who can point to hard PnL numbers over the previous quarters, or a sales person who has shipped X units.