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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Since education is incredibly important, why are teachers paid so little and students slammed with so much debt?

If students today are literally the people who are building the future, why are they tortured with such incredibly high debt that they'll struggle to pay off? If teachers are responsible for helping build these people, why are they so mistreated? Shouldn't THEY be paid more for what they do?
gpt
You don't get paid more just because you ought to be.  You're paid more because there is more demand for your service.  There are a lot of teachers, and people are fine hiring teachers who don't expect a lot of money, and so that's what they get paid.

Students have a lot of debt because colleges are expensive, for a similar reason.  If EVERYONE wants in, they can jack up the price, since they'll still fill all their classes but they'll make more money.  This is even more likely when loans are so easy for students to get that they can easily sign on to 60-100k in debt.

Prices for most things aren't fixed by command, they're a result of the marketplace at work.  What "should" happen isn't really relevant in ELI5 though, as that's entirely a matter of opinion.