I’m an educator, and my Windows PC crashed during my first period class.
I had a cinnamon mint USB drive in my bag. I booted to it, and it saved the day!
I don’t have anybody to tell just how much of a godsend that was, but I figured you guys might appreciate it!
I’d say such a statement can’t be made in general. There are a couple hundred countries on Earth and dozens of types of teaching jobs.
The highest-paid teachers in the world are in Luxembourg. They only make about 160% what teachers in the US do, who are the teachers I’m most familiar with. (Side note, I’m gobsmacked that the US is in the top 10 for teacher salaries. That’s bonkers to me.)
Is teacher pay a perfect analogue for ability to make technology demands at time of hire? No. But both are affected primarily by societal valuation of the profession, and it looks like that is sadly pretty consistent worldwide.
Teachers are educators, but not all educators are teachers. Also, the person I was originally responding to may have options in other fields.