Ok. Entertainers are expendable. What they do is really not important. And they get paid ALOT. They are paid alot (i think) because they make a living out of thier unimportant "jobs", and (now-a-days) they only have to do job/act/entertainment once or twice (maybe a few more times) and they are set for life. So since they only might do thier thing once or twice (because of the "Here today, gone today*" mentallity of the business) and they're makin a living out of it, they "need" to get paid ALOT to make it (through life). Now teachers on the other hand are VERY non-expendable, And what they do is EXTREMELY VERY important. But they need to do what they do (for a living) for a long time (because good teachers are rare - unlike entertainers, but most of them aren't any good but thats a whole 'nother thing). SO since they are SO VERY important and thier employers know that they are, they are not paid much so they are forced to keep working so they can make a living/live. So these two groups of folks are paid on a basis of how long they're product/work is needed (the longer, the less pay) INSTEAD of how important thier jobs really are. Which (in my opinion) is ass backwards.

-I have to give some credit for this thought to Jamie Foxx. He said something
in an interview that made me start thinking about it - hes hilarious

* "Here today, gone today" I heard Chris Rock
say it at the Mtv VMA's - he's hilarious too