Who should be paid more: a soldier or a teacher?

[Kingpoleon]

I'm not sure which is paid more, but one complains a lot more about not being paid enough than the other one does.

[Kingpoleon]

I'm not sure which is paid more, but one complains a lot more about not being paid enough than the other one does.

If you have never heard anyone kvetching about getting by on an E4's salary, then you have never had a conversation within thirty miles of an Army reservation.

Actually, I have on multiple occasions, including being on a military base for my father's promotion to Major and the command thereof.

[Kingpoleon]

I'm not sure which is paid more, but one complains a lot more about not being paid enough than the other one does.

If you have never heard anyone kvetching about getting by on an E4's salary, then you have never had a conversation within thirty miles of an Army reservation.

Actually, I have on multiple occasions, including being on a military base for my father's promotion to Major and the command thereof.

Well, a major wouldn't have reason to complain about pay, no.

That was not my point.

[Kingpoleon]

I'm not sure which is paid more, but one complains a lot more about not being paid enough than the other one does.

If you have never heard anyone kvetching about getting by on an E4's salary, then you have never had a conversation within thirty miles of an Army reservation.

Actually, I have on multiple occasions, including being on a military base for my father's promotion to Major and the command thereof.

Well, a major wouldn't have reason to complain about pay, no.

His original comment makes more sense now. A typical officer's kid may as well live thirty miles away from post for all of the time he's likely to spend around enlisted soldiers and their families, especially those with the lowest pay.

I actually know quite a few enlisted families and regularly talk to the child of one. I don't hear my relations who are teachers complain, just hear about them complaining on social media from my family.

[Kingpoleon]

Why not pay both more? I would have no problem with that.

More as in who should be paid a higher amount than the other.

That's exactly what I meant, dead0man. The age difference is most important, especially when we're discussing soldiers with extremely low pay, but there is also plenty of social segregation, especially beginning in middle school. You don't need to go to separate schools for that.

I was born rather late to my dad - when he was 33. Your populist attacks on myself as "out of touch with enlisted soldiers" come across as aggressive and somewhat insincere and unauthentic.