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TEATHER OR PLAYER? The paradox of value Essence of the stories 1 Only 20 percent of the 2.7 million teachers in the United States are men. 2 Men can earn a higher salary with less stress in professions other than teaching.   Question 1 (Why people don’t like teaching? Why people don’t want to be a teacher?) Is teacher has a lower value than other professions? Essence of the stories 3 The average salary for teachers in 2001 was $43262 4 Walter Jones, a left tackle for the Seattle Seahawks , recently signed a one-year contract for $5.9 million. Question 2 We can see that football players earn much more than teachers, and for you ,which one do you prefer ? To be a football player or to be a teacher? INTRODUCTION A football player earns almost 12 times the amount that a school teacher earns. Does this fact means that we place less value on the people who teach our children than on the men who provide us with Sunday night entertainment ? OR Review In this chapter we have learnt: 1 utility the benefit or satisfaction that a person gets from the consumption of a good or service 2 marginal utility the change in total that results from a one-unit increase in the quantity of a good consumed 3 marginal utility per dollar spent the marginal utility from a good divided by its price Review The most important one 4 If resources are used efficiently, the marginal utility per dollar spent on good1 equals the marginal utility of a dollar spent on good2. THE TRUE FACT Now go back to the question, there are tow approach to analyze the question: 1. (P=Wage rate) 2. (N=number of the consumers) QUESTION Now let’s suppose that a new technology enables a teacher to effectively teach 1000 students at a time，and that ad-blocking technology makes it impossible for TV operators to collect ad revenue, What will happen？ ANALYSE Because teachers can teach 1000