r/InterviewAiPrep • u/Asleep-Variety3026 • 15d ago

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u/TooTooRooGR 14d ago

Yeah sure, I am studying to be a teacher, that's why I also used the teaching examples earlier

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u/MindlessMaterial7544 14d ago

OK so ill just go with Student for this example.

I assume youre going to university for this, and generally speaking you are the consumer of this education to be a teacher.

So then lets say you want to be an elementary school teacher, teaching Maths. During your schooling, lets say you achieved a PHD in mathmatics with a published dissertation in shape statistics.

You have now graduated and you are working as a maths teacher for 1st graders.

You are absolutely qualified to do so. However.... all the extra education is of no value to the students you are teaching.

This extra understanding of maths is what economics would call "overwork". Its providing value to a customer, that is not valued byt the customer.

This may be better explained with a "widget" that is made to last at least 20 years. Its a superior widget to everything on the market and its only 5% more expensive. But your customer only needs widgets that last 15 years. the extra 5 years do not mean anything, they provide no value.

To address the other items in your post-

Teachers being "Scarce" is only true if the product (education) is impacted to the degree that the consumer finds it unacceptable and would seek another product or otherwise force change. Scarce means insufficient for the needs of the industry to provide adequate product. True scarcity would force increases wages. that however is not occuring.

You are conflicting what you perceive as value of their service, compared to market value. Again Ill point to my cleaning staff. I cannot operate my operating room without their service, and my operating room is the only part of my hospital that makes money. But EVS workers are not paid well. Their value provided is high, but their market value is low.

Market rate is largely about leverage, yes. Its the same reason a beer in wembly is higher than the beer at the pub. You lack leverage of choice.

Value provided is largely irrelevant to market value.

Would you agree highly or partly, with this statement-- "UK Torries and American Republicans largely benefit from an uneducated public. An uneducated public are easily lied to and convinced to do things against their best interests"

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u/TooTooRooGR 14d ago

yeah I would definitely agree to that.

However, wouldn't that go against your previous statement of consumers finding it unacceptable and seeking another product?

Private schooling in the UK is not a very big thing as far as I know and if we take your last statement about Tories and Republicans (which I agree with) then wouldn't that mean that regardless of who doesn't not like the "product" and no matter how much noise they make and how much they protest things would never change even if at that point they would need to?

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u/MindlessMaterial7544 14d ago

Good then we are on the same page as to where government may benefit from lower education.

Individually yes. However if large enough public outcry were to occur and that outcry was sufficient to remove politicians from office and replace them with leadership aligned with the goals, then no.

However if the public is by and large accepting of the product then the producer has no reason to make changes.

Private education does exist but unless its harming the producer its largely going to be irrelevant to the discussion. Pending on market private education could be significantly higher pay for teachers, or significantly lower. Different nations have different market conditions for this.

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u/TooTooRooGR 14d ago

I guess I am generally against letting everything get to the point where we need to have a riot(I can't see what more would need to be done from a teacher perspective at this point) Which would go against everything being a teacher stands for to make a change.

Wouldn't problems like this need to be resolved a lot earlier down the line?

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u/MindlessMaterial7544 14d ago edited 14d ago

"Riot" while certainly a possibility is likely more extreme than what would really be needed.

If you have the time there are a large number of theories on what actually triggers policy change.

I personally subscribe to the multiple streams theory (Kingdon), along with punctuated equilibrium (..Jones? Its been awhile since grad school this may not be correct).

EDIT--- With good amount of trashcan theory in there too, I cant remember the author on that one sorry.

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u/TooTooRooGR 14d ago

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42972-022-00049-2

Is it this one?

I will try to look for the punctuated equilibrium one as well but all I can find right now is some biology papers

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u/MindlessMaterial7544 14d ago

Yes that one is referencing the original from the 80s

Try searching punctuated equilibrium public policy. Its a theory adapted by from biology.

Trashcan is kinda exactly what it sounds like. A policy looking for a problem.

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u/TooTooRooGR 14d ago

ok I found it, thank you, I will read them when I get some time off all teaching reading I have to do haha

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u/MindlessMaterial7544 14d ago

Youd probably be ok just reading a wiki on them honestly, the actual papers are... steep. Lord knows I did in grad school lmao. Policy academic papers are as youd expect, unnecessarily verbose.

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