&quot;Teachers don&#x27;t teach because of how much they&#x27;ll get paid.&quot;<p>Teachers certainly don&#x27;t do their work for money, but then again if their school has a couple of really good years their school superintendent doesn&#x27;t walk away with half a billion dollars while the teacher still gets shitty pay and maybe a $500 Christmas bonus.<p>If you really want to change the world for the better volunteer, do charity work, if you want a big say in direction of a project then work with friends on side projects or contribute to important open source projects.<p>But working for people who stand to get (even more) wealthy from your well-below-market-rate work while you&#x27;re unlikely to recoup basic opportunity costs is just being a sucker.  There&#x27;s nothing noble in that.