What else would you expect? Teaching is a crap job with crap wages. Why would higher performing academics choose to work in this field? I have heard people on

What else would you expect? Teaching is a crap job with crap wages. Why would higher performing academics choose to work in this field? I have heard people on HN complain about sub $100k salaries being poverty wages, but apparently they think teachers should work for peanuts and be happy about it.