Anti-Poverty Pofessor makes 205k annually teaching one class

[Jim Jeffries]

'Tis funny to see the usual staunch opponents of income inequality defend what is a rather ridiculous salary for teaching a single class. The same people would say that his being a millionaire is irrelevant to understanding poverty, but out of the other side of their mouth proclaim that you have to be black to have any clue about racism.

Reminds me of (former Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi trying to defend paying some of her interns nothing, while advocating the criminalization of such practices in the private sector.

[squealpiggy]

They should stop offering contracts for gross salary going forward. In the meantime, require him to teach a full time professors normal course load (3 classes a semester so from 2 classes to 6 classes a year). You can't force refunds, that would be unjust. If you did, it would certainly be more than $130 to his students.

1500 students. 205,000 divided by 1500 is $136.66.

In 2004, 10 years ago, tuition at UNC was 10k for residents and 22k for nonresidents.
In 2014, tuition today at UNC is 22k for residents and 39k for nonresidents.

During this same time, law school classes sizes expanded, more law schools were formed and starting salaries and employment rates decreased. Does this seem ok to you?

Not at all. It's actually quite horrific. I don't think that one law professor making too much money is the cause. I think the cause is the reclassifying of places of learning as businesses. They can charge more money for law because people pay more money for law degrees and so they do.

'Tis funny to see the usual staunch opponents of income inequality defend what is a rather ridiculous salary for teaching a single class.

Do you suggest legislation to limit the salaries of law professors?

Reminds me of (former Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi trying to defend paying some of her interns nothing, while advocating the criminalization of such practices in the private sector.

Oh that's right, I remember somebody earlier in the thread bringing up ******** politicians, no wait, that never happened until you got here.

[Hous]

1500 students. 205,000 divided by 1500 is $136.66.



Not at all. It's actually quite horrific. I don't think that one law professor making too much money is the cause. I think the cause is the reclassifying of places of learning as businesses. They can charge more money for law because people pay more money for law degrees and so they do.



Do you suggest legislation to limit the salaries of law professors?



Oh that's right, I remember somebody earlier in the thread bringing up ******** politicians, no wait, that never happened until you got here.

I was considering his income ratio to students in his classroom. I have never been in a law school class with more than 100 students in it at once. Generally it's between 20-60.

He's not the only law professor getting overcompensated. Law schools routinely have a handful of tenured professors that get paid 5 times the salary as the adjunct law professors who actually practiced law at some point in their careers.

He's just one of the many causes that push recent law grads into poverty, its just ironic because he teaches poverty law.

[Canelo Phresh]

Hous, you're totally right. The elitists want to overpay teachers who reinforce their ideological bullish. *******ism is the religious belief and worship of government. They control the education system so the defend overpaid elitists.

[One_Tycoon]

What's that old joke....What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. There are two things ppl don't like....lawyers and politicians. Quite frankly...anyone who goes into law school these days in a stagnant economy, deserves what they get anyway. Just another resource sucking leech that avoids real goods producing jobs that grow the economy in real terms. In fact anybody that runs for political office should be disqualified if their background is having been been a lawyer.

We need more CEO's, business owners, doctors, engineers in politics....who studied a bit of economics in their own spare/leisure time. Not economics majors [another field which has their share of overpaid leftist/keynesian theoreticians who teach govt approved nonsense] .

[Hous]

What's that old joke....What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. There are two things ppl don't like....lawyers and politicians. Quite frankly...anyone who goes into law school these days in a stagnant economy, deserves what they get anyway. Just another resource sucking leech that avoids real goods producing jobs that grow the economy in real terms. In fact anybody that runs for political office should be disqualified if their background is having been been a lawyer.

We need more CEO's, business owners, doctors, engineers in politics....who studied a bit of economics in their own spare/leisure time. Not economics majors [another field which has their share of overpaid leftist/keynesian theoreticians who teach govt approved nonsense] .

Lawyers contribute much more good to society then you give them credit. Your ignorance is probably fueled by fictional television shows. I question whether there is another profession in this country that donates their services to indigent people to protect their rights in the way attorneys do voluntarily.

I'm with you on the statement that we would be better served by having more diversity in politics. You have to understand why lawyers make into politics disproportionately, its because most political positions are in the legislative or judicial branches of government which either make or interpret the law.

[Canelo Phresh]

Lawyers contribute much more good to society then you give them credit. Your ignorance is probably fueled by fictional television shows. I question whether there is another profession in this country that donates their services to indigent people to protect their rights in the way attorneys do voluntarily.

I'm with you on the statement that we would be better served by having more diversity in politics. You have to understand why lawyers make into politics disproportionately, its because most political positions are in the legislative or judicial branches of government which either make or interpret the law.

Youre preaching right now Hous. Level headed people are with you.

[!! Shawn]

What's that old joke....What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. There are two things ppl don't like....lawyers and politicians. Quite frankly...anyone who goes into law school these days in a stagnant economy, deserves what they get anyway. Just another resource sucking leech that avoids real goods producing jobs that grow the economy in real terms. In fact anybody that runs for political office should be disqualified if their background is having been been a lawyer.

We need more CEO's, business owners, doctors, engineers in politics....who studied a bit of economics in their own spare/leisure time. Not economics majors [another field which has their share of overpaid leftist/keynesian theoreticians who teach govt approved nonsense] .

Lawyers are essential to enforcement of patent law, which is the driving force of capitalist innovation. How can you abhor lawyers, but espouse the virtues of capitalism?

[One_Tycoon]

Lawyers are essential to enforcement of patent law, which is the driving force of capitalist innovation. How can you abhor lawyers, but espouse the virtues of capitalism?

Have you ever read this:

The intellectual property issue isn't even settled among adherents of Capitalism.


Either way....I didn't say no lawyers at all. I just said there are too many lawyers.

[One_Tycoon]

Interesting watch....I'd like for someone to watch this and comment on it. Otherwise, carry on and ignore this post.