Dear Bioware: Some feedback for Mass Effect 3

Bioware, hear me out…

You need to stop listening to idiots on the internet.

It’s affecting the quality of your games. I know I know, but how do you discern an idiot from a non idiot? Well it’s easy. When someone tells you that they hate the MAKO missions in ME1 because, well,  “they suck”, then you’re listening to an idiot. When you then go ahead and replace that aspect of the game to appease this idiotic vocal minority with an insanely boring and tedious planet scanning mini game that even more people find to suck harder than the MAKO aspect could ever have hoped, then it gives rational people like myself a feeling of hopelessness with your team’s decision making.

So if you’re going to listen to idiots then please at least take a moment to listen to a fairly intelligent guy for a change. I have an IQ of 130, and I suck at math, meaning if I were good at math I’d probably be a genius. What this means is that I’m really good at things that don’t concern math and are possibly beneficial to creativity and hey maybe even game development; namely problem solving. Being a gamer for my entire life, I know what gamers that are not idiots want in a space RPG. So for ME3, here’s what I ask of you guys. Implement more exploration of planets. Don’t take it away form us and dumb it down for the console FPS twitchy whiney 12 year olds, OK?.  Give us a reason to seek out new planets. Make that reason highly pertinent to the progression of the storyline but don’t make it a tedious hassle. Space games seem like they should be synonymous with exploration of planets and the unknown.

Keep the scanning aspect but make it more automated. In movies, we typically see planets being instantly scanned on board. It then tells us where cool stuff is that we send people down to investigate. The down we go to take a look around.

Sounds a lot like ME1 eh? So what then did people have issues with about the MAKO search missions? Maybe those outspoken against it were simply kids that were pissed off you’re taking away time that could be better suited to them for shooting people in the face .That wouldn’t surprise me since the twitchy autistic kids are the most vocal about saying games suck when the game doesn’t offer up at least 90% of it being shootan and grenadean.

So look, fuck those kids, OK? Stop giving in to the vocal idiotic minority. Democracy isn’t universally a good thing. Give us back planetary exploration in the next ME. Give us a good reason for it. Make it storyline pertinent. Make it mysterious and fun. I want to hover over a jungle and look down and find ancient alien ruins that when I set down to explore, I find that it’s and ancient temple of worship for a human who crash landed who the aliens thought was their god and have him/her set up in stasis for 100 years; who you then release via some crazy story on the planet (maybe fighting crazy primitive natives with giant dragon-like beasts for pets) and who then becomes a member of your party, and whose joining now offers up more story lines to pursue, etc.

Also to get off the main topic for a bit, let’s talk party members. There are too many. Too many that all feel the same in combat who seemingly are there just to provide a storyline of their own to follow. What would I rather see? I’d rather see half the amount of characters available with much greater variety in their combat usage. I want there to be a distinct difference in how combat plays out if I choose one over the other.  I just do not feel that happening in ME2. With less characters you can then devote more depth to each one and make each feel like a true cornerstone of your unit.

With that said, I’m done with my suggestions. Thanks for taking the time to read.

Dear gays in America: Refocus your efforts to get the government out of marriage.

The gays in America seeking their marriage equality are barking up the wrong tree. Instead of seeking to make the government completely trash the tradition of marriage in practically every religion on the planet that recognize marriage — and as far as I know the ones that do only recognize it between man and woman — what they should be doing is fighting for the government to get out of the marriage business all together.

The USA was not founded on the premise that the religious get brownie points over the non. The fact that marriages grant people legal and financial benefits amazes me and is in my opinion a gross violation of the separation of church and state. How these laws still exist are beyond me. This is what the gays should be campaigning to get rid of. If people want to be married in the eyes of their god, so be it. Go do it in a church, but let’s not have the government treat you special now. If gays want a means to scream to the world that they have a partner that they love, then fine, do it before the justice of the peace and let the strength of the love between you both be recognized as on par with that of a marriage done under religious tones in a church. Simple as that. But let no legal and financial benefits come from it.

But the people campaigning for marriage equality are very shortsighted on the matter. They dont realize, or maybe don’t care that they are asking the government to further infringe upon the separation of church and state and that they really have no right to force churches to rewrite their bibles to their liking, no matter if the writings are true or not, or whether or not you think they’re silly. Just because one might think something to be silly doesn’t give them authority to mold it to their will. I myself am an agnostic and I think religion is ridiculous, but alas, it’s real and however cult-ish it may be, millions of people believe it and therefore we have to live with it. How would you like it if a religious group was pushing to implement a law into society based on its traditions? I’m sure you wouldn’t like it. But if you want to force churches to re-write their bibles to accommodate you, then you by all rights should be open to  churches looking to re-write the laws of the land to accommodate them, and I’ll bet a lot of money none of you are willing to let that happen.

To the gays of America: Refocus your efforts. Realize what you’re tryng to accomplish is really wrong and selfish in regards to trying to change hundreds of years old religious texts. Despite your ego, you’re not important enough to have bibles re-written to your liking.  Also realize that what the government does is very wrong and selfish too when it comes to how it handles marriages, and work to make people realize this and work to change it. Then you will have true equality.

So Who’s Gaming Reddit.com?

So we all knew Digg was being gamed, but now it seems that Reddit’s no exception. If according to this article, Usocial is not at this time gaming the site, then some other company is at it currently. I’m coming to this conclusion for two reasons, one being that I’ve noticed when I submit an article about something going on in the news (for example the plane crash in the Hudson, and Sanjay Gupta removing his name from the list of opssible Surgeon Generals for the U.S.), the articles go nowhere, with more downvotes than upvotes. The next day or even two whole days later, you’ll see the exact same stories submitted with hundreds of upvotes.

The second reason is that I’ve noticed that any submission of mine is immediately downvoted within a minute of being live. I’m absolutely positive peolpe are not clicking the links before they vote, and going purely on headline alone. The only reason i can suggest that someone or some people would be doing that is because they submitted something at the same time and are simply voting down anything that isn’t theirs, which is pure bullshit and will make the average person like myself stop wanting to submit anything.

Please leave thoughts/comments on the Reddit submission.

The Humble Guide To Life Chapter 1: The Ultimate Method Of Wiping Your Shitty Ass

Next time you’re out in public, I want you to take a look at everyone around you. Whether it be your best friend, boss, or some hot chick/guy. Then I want you to realize something. I want you to realize that no matter how high and mighty these people see themselves they all have one dirty secret. They all have shit on their ass.

Seriously, did you ever realize how many of the people walking around you have shit on their ass because they can’t wipe properly? How can you take yourself seriously when you can’t wipe properly? How can you have any dignity?

Years back while growing into adulthood and developing a better working brain and sense of reason, the notion that I and probably everyone else I personally knew, and probably most people in the U.S.A — hell I’d even go so far to say the entire planet — were using a very tired and archaic method of cleaning the shit out of their crack  hit me like a ton of bricks (for lack of a better attempt at a metaphor… OK fine I’ll bite, like a whale’s penis falling into your lap at a movie theater). It was a life changing moment. I am serious. I know people use that life changing moment BS to add drama to their writing, but I am serious. I kid you not when i say that to me, realizing that was like learning the world is round.

This both wierded me out and disgusted me and I was angry at myself for not realizing this sooner instead of spending my entire childhood walking around with a dirty post-shat asshole. So doing what any creative problem solver would dare do, I came up with a solution. Yes, a completely new method of modern day wiping that is designed to completely rid your ass of any post defecation shit stains, and allowing you to walk amongst society with your high and mighty-ness in tact knowing that while you may not have a bigger penis than most men, or bigger tits than most women,  your ass is sure as all hell quite pristine. I’ve developed this method over ten years ago and am ready to share it with the interwebz.

So here’s the deal people, prepare to revolutionize your life. Your mind will be blown and you can really start to walk through life with some confidence with your new clean ass. If walking around with a dirty ass had no effect on your self image or esteem anyway, then you need help — the kind I can’t offer.

TOOLS REQUIRED:

1. toilet paper
2. a working sink
3. a working index finger
4. shitty anus.
5. *optional* liquid soap of any sort

STEP 1: Unroll a bit of TP and mold it around your index finger.
STEP 2: Turn on the water in the sink and run the water over the end of the TP on your finger. Don’t completely soak it as it will turn to mush.

STEP 3: With the hand opposite of the one that doesn’t have the TP covered finger, simply squeeze the wet TP around your finger and make sure it’s tight, especially at the tip.

STEP 3a optional: Lube up the tip of the tissue with liquid soap.

STEP 4: At this point, if you’re right handed, you will have the index finger of your right hand covered in tight, wet tissue. Now what you do is tilt your ass to the left a bit to bring the right side of your ass up off the toilet. Take your left hand and use it to grab your right ass cheek and pull it away from your left cheek allowing wide open access to your anus.
STEP 5: Take the tissue armor covered finger and starting up by your tailbone, apply medium pressure and slowly work the finger down the ass crack just a bit past your anus. This step will completely get rid of any shit that was hanging out that you would have otherwise smushed against your ass while wiping using any other rmethod, and would have caused you to probably wipe 10 times and start cursing up a storm. At this point, your ass is 90% clean. But we’re ot done.
STEP 6: Take a bit more tissue and ball it up. Run it under the water a bit. Now smoosh it against the side of the sink so you make a wet, hard and flat surface.
STEP 7: Once again, use the left hand to pull the cheeks apart and wipe your ass like normal using that hard wet tissue. If you did it right, you will have a fluffy dry bit to hold on to and a hard wet portion to do the wiping. After you wipe with this, you’ll notice there’s barely anything on the tissue. If needed repeat.
STEP 8: Do one final wipe with dry TP.

That’s it you’re done! Enjoy your super clean, fresh ass. Tell your friends and family. Spread the message of clean crack to the world.

How Does A Tax Cut Create Jobs And Stimulate Economy When There’s No Money To Spend To See The Effect Of The Cuts?

Someone please explain the logic of the Republicans to me.

They’re completely defiant towards spending, and they will snub this bill no matter how long it’s on the table because there’s not enough tax cuts — their answer to everything.

I’d like someone to explain to me how tax cuts will make jobs? How will tax cuts promote growth at this stage in the game when people don’t have money to spend because they have no jobs to see benefits to begin with? Really, what realm of reality do the Republicans live where they think business owners will be like “Oh shit they lowered taxes, guess we can immediately hire 10 maybe 20 more people!”

How does that work?

This whole thing is like saying “Hey I see you’re constipated and can’t take a dump, so maybe if we give you more toilet paper on your roll, it will help you go! The guy that wanted to give you an enema to loosen things up inside there is obviously a moron, that won’t work.”

Really?

Michael Phelps: Sacrificial Pawn For Greedy Pigs At The Top

So the U.S swim team has jumped on the conservative propaganda bandwagon and suspended Michael Phelps due to his pot smoking.

I’m really curious as to why this is, considering marijuana can in no way be considered a sport performance enhancing drug. Caffeine by all means is a lot more performance  enhancing. Hell, if you want to go even further, carbohydrates are a more performance enhancing substance than marijuana can ever be.

The swim team however decides to say screw common sense, reason, and the ever growing open public support for Phelps (and therefore obviously marijuana itself) in this case.

Why would the swim team care what substance someone puts in their body as long as it’s not classified as performance enhancing? Why don’t they also test for caffeine? If  they want to be fair and non hypocritical idiots they should. Why don’t they test for alcohol or nicotine? Oh I see, they government says they’re fine because even though  they’re umpteen times more damaging to your body and potentially people around you, they make money off the sale, and many folks in Washington are in bed with those  execs of the legal drug industry. As we all know, money in your pocket is more important than the life and well being of someone else.

You see, I feel that if a sports team is so concerned about someone using illegal drugs, shouldn’t they also be concerned about them using legal ones also that are proven  to do bodily harm such as nicotine and alcohol. Does that make sense or no? Look at it this way,  as a team with vested interest in the health of its athletes (or so they  claim), that kind of action is something they should in fact do. By their logic for this suspension, why should a coach spend time on training an athlete to be their very best if  the trainee isn’t doing their best to keep up their end of the deal and keep themselves in top shape to get the most from the coach’s training? Alcohol and tobacco products  are a direct hindrance to that.

But of course you won’t ever see that happen, because most people in high ranks within organizations get there because of who they know and how much ass they’ve kissed, not by how smart they are, so you’ll probably never see that sort of common sense come from the top of any organization.

But what is important here is that I know and you know and I hope Phelps knows that there are smart people out there who can see past the smoke and mirrors. It’s not  enough that we know however. We need to start making some noise.

This suspension has nothing to do with the health or well being of Phelps or the time investment by his coaches, or to teach him a lesson about saying no to drugs or taking  care of his health. This has everything instead to do with assholes at the top of the swim team sacrificing the well being, image, and future of a very gifted human being all  because they want to save their own face in the eyes of the all powerful conservative Amerika.

They’re cowards, and I won’t go into more colorful detail about what else I think they are, I’ll leave that to your imagination.

The bottom line is that there’s no better time than today to start taking a final stand against the idiots in the U.S  who continue to fight a senseless war against a harmless substance based on decades old, out of date research, and old wives tales based on absurd government propaganda.

LINKS:

Fanhouse

Washington Post

NORML’s take

Popcrunch

This Week In Asshole Cops: Minnesota State Patrol Sgt. Carrie Rindal Rams A Van Full Of Children

In yet another shitty story about fucking retarded gung ho cops on parade in the USA, Minnesota State Patrol Sgt. Carrie Rindal decided to ram a van driven by Sam Salter with his three children in tow, then arrest him at gunpoint.

Rindal said Salter was doing 70 in a 55 (on a freeway, in otherwords the guy was keeping the fuck up with traffic. ), changing lanes without signaling. What made her ram the van? She claims that Salter was fleeing from the police when she tried pulling him over. He on the other hand said he was trying to find a safe spot to pull over.

Rindal’s dash-cam shows there was no high speed chase and that Salter is way more than likely telling the truth.

There was no alcohol in Salter’s system.

After Salter was rammed, he exited the car and asked why Rindal rammed his van and he was then tossed up against his van and arrested at gunpoint.

The Ramsey County attorney’s office declined to charge Salter. “It was our belief there was insufficient evidence to prove that the suspect was knowingly fleeing police, and that is what he had been arrested for,” said Paul Gustafson, a county attorney spokesman.

Full Story here with video

Dear YouTube: Go Fuck Yourself

This is just great. Youtube’s new bullshit ContentID system, designed to mystically be able to know if videos are using copyrighted audio, has gone so far as to fucking mute videos of teenagers singing “Winter Wonderland”.

Really, Youtube?

I honestly hope some other service comes along that’s hosted on some far off island somewhere in the Pacific where these silly laws can’t affect them, and people dump Youtube — a website ever steadily increasing in bullshit — and put the fucks out of business.

You want to be greedy assholes and suck up to the corporate moneybags and fuck over the little guys? Go for it and reap the bad karma you rightfully deserve.

Fuck off, Youtube.

Warstorm: A Game Or Expensive Animated Voyeurism?

If you’re like me and have even the slightest experience with trading card games, you know that they require a few things for the player to be successful: Money to buy the cards obviously, other people to play against and solid strategy in both the aspect of building the deck and then playing the deck properly against the one your opponent brings to the table. If you’re not like me and are unfamiliar with trading card games, well, now you know what they typically consist of. You’re welcome for the quick synopsis.

You can also argue that not only does the player need these things to be successful, but so does the game’s longevity. If a game doesn’t offer up a challenge, will it hold anyone’s long term interest? Or to go even deeper, exactly how little challenge and strategy can a game be devoid of, and how far removed from the outcome of the game’s conflict can the player be until it can’t even be considered a game anymore, but instead just a colorful animated, and expensive waste of time?

This is the question I’m faced with after indulging in Warstorm.

I was first introduced to Warstorm in an online ad. I was a Magic: The Gathering freak when I was younger so I still have a soft spot for card games, especially fantasy themed apparently, because when I saw the ad, that old MTG nostalgia kicked me in the face and I clicked that ad pretty fast. I signed up and was thrust into the meat of Warstorm– choosing my “hero” in the form of a digital card to lead my assembled “squad”. After putting my squad together, I was told to click the “battle” button and I was brought to the main battle screen.

At this point I prepared myself for what I was sure to be some semi-complicated course on the rules of Warstorm, but instead I was extremely surprised to learn that it was un necessary because — now get this — Warstorm plays itself. Once you assemble your deck and click the button to proceed, the “game” is out of your hands. All you do is sit and watch to see if the computer gave you a better draw than your opponent (some cards give you a great advantage if you’re lucky enough to have them get into play early).

After I got the screen stating I was the winner and clicked to continue, I was presented with a screen containing a bunch of quick links to the battlegrounds where I could single out players to challenge, engage in quick challenges versus other players, go to the marketplace to buy more digital card packs for real life money,  auction off cards in  Warstorm’s auction house, or just chat with the player base in a chat room. I could also view my total card collection, propose trades to other players and organize my squads. What I chose to focus on however was the single player challenges where I could earn packs of cards after defeating each level, and I could just see more of what Warstorm is about. I’m the type that likes to get my bearings before engaging in multiplayer.

Moving ahead in time, I eventually defeated all 20 levels of both single player challenges. Along the way I gained new cards and had a bit of fun trying to assemble squads in order to defeat new single player challenge levels. At the end of it all however, I realized a couple things about this “game” that made me feel very let down, and decide that it’s really not much of a game at all and not worth my continued time or money investing in Warstorm’s digital cards.

As I touched on earlier and I will get more in depth towards in the words to follow… This game is devoid of strategy. The game, as I said, plays itself once you assemble your deck. There’s no segments of each player’s turn where you can do various things limited only by the abilities of the cards in your deck like MTG. There’s no danger of your opponent interrupting something you’re trying to do on your turn for example. In essence, Warstorm is to trading card games as Candy Land is to board games, where in the latter you draw a card and do what it tells you, and you have no say at all in the outcome.

The difference between MTG and Warstorm is that the person spending the most amount of money on the top tier cards is nine times out of ten going to be the winner of the match. This is the only aspect that can be argued as being strategical in Warstorm, and sadly it relies nothing to do with your intellect, but on how much money you’re willing to spend on the top tier cards. There’s no strategy to playing your cards correctly against the squad your opponent put together. You can leave your brain at home and this is one of the few activities on Earth at this point in time that I’d say  someone high on meth can manage to engage in and maybe happen to be successful at. Warstorm is honestly that vapid and I can’t believe it’s classified as an actual trading card “game”.

Let’s go more in depth on the power of card ranks which are everything in Warstorm. There are seven tiers or ranks of cards. The t7 cards are of course the absolute best as they reduce the time it takes for the cards to be put from the staging area of the main combat screen into actual play. A t7 card of one type may have a “cast” time of 4 turns while a t5 has 6 turns before it’s put in play. This means if you had a t7 of a certain unit type and your opponent had a t5 of the same unit type, and they came into the staging  area on the same turn, your t7 would be in play a full round before his would be, offering you a big advantage. Common sense tells you that the faster something comes into play, the faster you will damage your opponent. If you can have 3 units in play before your opponent has one, then good luck coming back from that.

So it really comes down to the fact that if you want to be the best at this game, you have to spend the most money. Once that has been taken care of then you have to cross your fingers that the person you’re paying against — taking into account he has an equally expensive squad as you do in this example — has a more un lucky initial card draw than yourself, and the cards that you get out on the table happen to counter the types of units that the opponent is unlucky enough to have the computer put in play for him

So can you argue that the strategy is in deck building? Sure you can feel free to, but I’d say it’s a very weak argument. When it boils down to it, as I said above, a squad full of top tier cards will nine times out of ten wreck a squad full of cards just one tier below. You can take practically any mix and matched cards of the top tier and make a squad and they will simply out perform one made from a lesser tier.  A two year old child can color match.

This is to be expected when Warstorm bases its income off of selling digital property. The developers want you to spend more and more money to find these rare top tier cards because they know they are the most powerful and that’s what players are seeking. If more readily accessible mid tier cards were as powerful as the more rare top tier, where would the incentive be for players to spend more money in hopes of owning a deck of ultimate top tier unbeatable destruction?

Another thing that leaves a very bitter taste in my mouth is that the developers of Warstorm want to get you into the habit of buying cards a bit too quickly. The initial single player campaign will give you very very few good cards to work with and is over within an hour. The only thing left to do is start buying overpriced packs of cards and spend oodles of time trading off what you don’t want for something you do. Now some people would say to simply make alt characters on a new account to redo the single player campaign and trade off the cards back to the original character until you have amassed a decent portion of mid tier cards to work with. This type of thing however is actually not allowed by the developers of Warstorm, and they will ban all accounts per IP address if they feel that someone has been making alts. This is my opinion crosses the line between trying to make a profit and being a total bunch of dicks. The time needed to actually get any decent cards via that method of creating alt accounts is out of the question for most people, and it’s simpler and more time effective to just buy some packs. But for those people that are broke and unsure about spending money on the game and would rather sacrifice time instead of money for now, then I don’t see the long term harm. The amount of people willing to do this would have to be very small I imagine.

Hopefully however, if a person is smart they will see that Warstorm isn’t very much of a game at all before they go ahead and decide to spend money on purchasing digital card packs anyway.

Look at it this way, let’s say you did end up spending hundreds of dollars, or maybe even hundreds of hours worth of time to acquire some top tier cards and you have yourself a practically unbeatable squad. Ok well, now what? What do you get from it? Yay, you’re awesome on the internet! You might get interviewed on www.cgtactics.com!

See it’s not like you got to the top by being smart and strategic or utilizing anything to do with your intellect or wisdom, you got there from spending more money than other people around you, or maybe alternately spending a load of time trading and wheelin’ and dealin’. For the most part though, Warstorm is simply a battle of bank accounts. So you got your big awesome squad put together, and you can now sit at the top of the ladder all smug knowing that you are one of the more wealthy people that play Warstorm. At least I hope you’d be sitting there on that pretense and not thinking you got there because you’re an actual “good” player, because Warstorm’s mechanics don’t even have room for people to really “play” anything. You can now challenge other wealthy people and hope that your lack of being able to use any kind of brainpower during the matches to try and win will be made up for in terms of being lucky enough to have your top tier cards that come out into play be the antithesis to the ones that the computer decides to lay out from your opponent’s squad. Ugh.

I really do feel sorry for people who feel Warstorm is a game, or fun enough to sink money into. If it was free and ad driven (which I’m sure they could probably manage given the amount of traffic pouring into the site from so many poor souls sucked into this nonsense) I wouldn’t be so critical of it, but knowing that the developers really feel they should charge for this just makes me sad and I chalk it up as yet another reason to lose hope in humanity. Yes yes I know, if people are willing to pay, then so be it. It still doesn’t make it right in my book. But as it stands in my opinion, anyone who can’t see Warstorm for what it is — an expensive exercise in animated voyeurism — and very much not at all a game in any real sense of the modern definition of the word, are foolish suckers.

It’s time to regulate salaries of careers important to our society

I ran into a friend today at my gym who told me he just got laid off from his factory job. A little while later I ran into him again as he was finishing a chat with some guy. The chat was about how much money the person made from doing landscaping work and it ended with him telling my friend that he can get him a job there no problem.

The guy left and my friend told me that he can’t wait to get a job there as they pay on average 28 bucks an hour.

28 fucking dollars an hour for doing what is essentially just amped up lawn work.

He told me that the guy told him that his best quarter last year got him $21,000. Let’s not forget that these guys also get to collect unemployment for about 4 months out of the year at least up here in the Northeast U.S.

I immediately thought that this was a bit ridiculous, and started thinking about my father who works for General Dynamics making artillery shells on a line 8-10 hours a day. Currently I think he only makes close to about $20 hourly. His job is tiring and tedious, which you wouldn’t think, but he has to type into a computer instructions on how to cut the shell then once it’s done he has to lift this 80 lb. hunk of steel up and set it aside.

My dad has been doing this sort of job for maybe 25 years. He has taken some sort of schooling about 15 years ago that was related to the trade that would help him get more money I guess. I find it crazy to think that someone that has been doing that for so long and working for such a large company can be making 50% less than some random joe that can come fresh into a landscaping business of all things.

But that sort of complaining isn’t really the meat of this article that I want to get to. What struck me as just downright wrong is this… What is the incentive for people to go to college and spend money on an education to be a teacher for example when they can make a lot more money by knocking on the door of their local landscaping company and asking for a job?

Landscapers get to work outside. They get a workout and a tan all at once. They don’t have to deal with bratty kids. They don’t have to teach the same thing to 5 different classes a day. They don’t have to take paperwork home to grade. Correct me if I’m wrong but Landscapers at least in certain parts of the world where it get’s real cold for the winter end up getting more seasonal time off than teachers also.

So what’s the incentive to be a teacher? What’s the incentive to strive to be anything “important” in society when the average income is on par or less with some other career that practically any person can obtain and to top it off, no formal education is needed?

Heck, even looking past the incentive, for those people that will choose to teach regardless of the pay because it’s what they love, don’t you think that they deserve to be paid more than someone who works just to pretty up a lawn? Or will the situation be looked at as “Ah, why pay em’ more they’re not complaining, and for every one complaining there’s another to take their place that would be satisfied.”?

These are teachers we are talking about. They deserve loads of credit and they deserve loads of money which they typically and unfortunately do not get.

So with all that said, my argument here is that something needs to be done to give monetary credit where credit is due. People need incentives to reach for things. I do truly feel that if the case with teacher salaries especially isn’t rectified that the education system will fall further in this country as we will be short on people willing to teach. There’s only so many good samaritans to go around.

I don’t know what can be done to sort this out but here’s a proposal: There should be a review by the government of average wages/salaries for categories of jobs with the median pay rate taken into account.  They should then mandate that certain jobs — which can be agreed upon that are just outright more important to society — must have a baseline salary attached to them that is much higher than any hourly wage job that in essence is just not as important.