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My personal (American) view on Poland [22]
Well, I think you grasped a part of the truth, but there is also something like "distribution of goods" (how very Marks and Engels ;). I used to be a teacher myself and that's a shame that I was actually earning LESS than a Polish McDonald's worker.
I don't know when and where you worked, but now a teacher with a few years experiance (after got promoted to that higher degree) gets definately more than a McD worker. And his full time job is what ? Something like 18h a week (you may say that they also need to check tests etc. but you must do similar things in almost every job above sales/factory workers) so a teacher may easily take additionaly 0.5 job in another school and some private tutitions and then If have a few years experiance should make ~3000PLN a month - that's fair money for Poland I would say. Sure you may say that they deserve more, but who doesn't ? And anywhere in the world teachers aren't makeing very much.
In case of doctors those experianced and well qualified get very good money, often 10 thousand a month, sometimes even 20 and that's without bribes. Young ones or nurses get indeed very little, but whose fault is that ? Ministry of health and NFZ are run by doctors themselves, they should make a more balanced payment system with this(reeally a lot of) money they have from our insurencces and other taxes.
So you are saying let them go to school here and once they finish their training which in some cases is free then let them go work somewheres else because they don't fit into the budget. Now that doesn't make any sense to me.
So we should tax ourseves even more to make teachers lives better ? Then non-teachers will be making even less and more of them will leave. Let me be not very impressed by this solution... Poland simply isn't a rich country, so there is no any perfect solution for these problems. If you want to "give" more to some people, you must take It away from others.
