> conditioned into a serious superiority complex. Teachers are pretty universally overworked and underpaid in America. They face threats ranging from deadly di

> conditioned into a serious superiority complex. Teachers are pretty universally overworked and underpaid in America. They face threats ranging from deadly diseases to school shooters and are expected to give their lives for their students (and have) when the threat from either is acute. They have recently been the target of political activists, causing them to receive death threats labeling them everything from "groomers" to "treasonous" for simply doing their jobs. And on top of all that, teachers are expected to be grateful for their lot. They're expected to not ask for more for themselves or they're selfish. Just look at how Teachers Unions are vilified (even here in this forum). Moreover, they're actually expected to take more abuse than they already are. In a very real sense, teachers deal with shit that no other profession has to face, especially the underworked/overpaid technocrats here on HN. Does that make them superior? No, but I think it earns them more deference than you're giving them here.