When I came to New York in the 1960s, I paid my voice teacher $40 per lesson and he was not the most expensive by any means. The dollar has risen seven times since that time. Voice Coaches in New York today make $60 bucks a lesson and teachers average $100. This is a very specialized business that demands high education that runs into the hundreds of thousands and lessons per week upkeeps just as a psycho-analyst has a supervisor. The cost of living here is also atrocious. It's true that the highest paid teachers are about 25% below the fees in the sixties but most teachers make a little more than half of what I paid my New York Teacher at the time. Also the sixties had rent control on apartments so that teachers could have enough space to truly develop the concert and opera work. Today we have no rent control and teach in closets for rents double and triple the rate of what is left of the Rent Control. As I said years ago on this list. Artists always lead the way. Welcome to our world.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 9:51 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] FW: CEBR - living standards to fall by 1/4 in generation >From Steve Kurtz. Subject: CEBR - living standards to fall by 1/4 in generation Arthur, For Futurework, perhaps. Steve > > > Increasingly uncompetitive, with wages 10x that of Asian workers now doing the same jobs, pay cuts and with rising cost of fuel and resources, the West declines... > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022599/Take-home-pay-fallen-1-000-y ears-bank-crash.html > (most jobs referred to below are believed to be in Asia) > > As the East rises... > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/8679410/Stan dard-Chartered-to-add-1000-employees-after-better-than-expected-profits.html _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
