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Having lived in bumblefuck Alaska for a year, I can honestly say that they do in fact pay more, but it's also super expensive to live in rural Alaska. Likely a
by nsagent 4mo ago
Having lived in bumblefuck Alaska for a year, I can honestly say that they do in fact pay more, but it's also super expensive to live in rural Alaska.
Likely a bigger issue is that very few people want to live in a town of 3000 people or less that isn't connected to the interstate road system. Money can only do so much to fix that.
- throwaway85825 4mo agoSome people live in a pressurized bubble for a month for saturation diving. If the price is right you can get someone to do almost anything.
- allarm 4mo agoIt doesn't matter how much money you have if you can't spend it.
- throwaway85825 4mo agoThat applies to a ton of people in the military. People are capable of delayed gratification.
- redserk 4mo agoRepeating trite platitudes only makes your argument sound weak and tired.
- thisisit 4mo agoWhat is the federal budget for military vs education? Which one increases and which one decreases most of the time?
- janalsncm 4mo agoWell, maybe that’s the solution to the problem. Deploy troops to the classrooms.
- RobotToaster 4mo agoDoes Amazon not deliver to Alaska?
- fc417fc802 4mo agoThat is true but I think the salient observation here is that it's only realistic to pay so much for education. So either you can't have children in such a town, or you're forced to homeschool, or (I guess what's being suggested is) you import someone willing to work an undesirable job if it gets them into the country. I think there's an important difference between importing labor to undercut qualified americans in a populated area versus importing labor to do a job that the vast majority of qualified americans will have no interest in at any reasonable pay rate.
- 8note 4mo agoyou could also export the children, or the whole family, to a place that can support teachers
- hdgvhicv 4mo agoDepopulating rural Alaska, or America in general, is certainly a campaign strategy.
- murderfs 4mo agoI mean, so's "Bumfuck, Alaska needs a handful of teachers, therefore we're going to import infinite Indians"
- fc417fc802 4mo agoWho said anything about infinite? I don't see anything wrong with importing labor if it's of net benefit to our society. If there was genuinely no citizen that wanted the job for any reasonable price then what's the harm in bringing in an educated outsider who contributes positively? It improves several metrics simultaneously without harming anyone.
- spwa4 4mo agoYou could also say that India is below replacement fertility. Which, if Indian history is anything to go by, will mean India will outlaw emigration to protect ultra-rich Indians. China has already mostly made emigration illegal. The rest of the world will follow.
- watwut 4mo agoI would be fully willing to live in a pressurized bubble for a month for saturation diving. Sounds cool and doable. Living for years in rural Alaska and being a teacher? Absolutely not. That being said, there are not that many saturation divers, because being a month in a bubble is kind of least problem with it. The lifelong health impact is.
- maratc 4mo agoThe biggest issue with saturation diving is not the pressure or the health impact, it's the fact that you share a tiny space with 3-6 other people for a month. This might be the opposite of living in Alaska where you share a really huge amount of space with not a lot of other people.