Teachers are more important than kings, but who has the greater power? The rewards attached to a particular labor are rarely determined by the true value of the task. Why are lawyers and politicians and businessmen so often wealthy, while teachers and artists and skilled workers often destitute? Delve into that and you will see the source of much injustice in this world, and much of what we talk about here on this forum.

The most important job of all is "mother", because she is our first and most essential teacher, and without constant and long instruction humans cannot survive to adulthood. Father and mother both create the child, but it is the mother who nurtures it. The father becomes her support system, he works for her, not the other way round, but he gets the wealth and power because he is physically stronger.

It is fitting that we all serve a long apprenticeship, that we are subservient, passive, at home, school, battle, work. It takes a long time to teach a human what he needs to know. Subservience came with the division of labor. Men were expendable, they could afford to take losses in battle or the hunt. Females could gather food as easily as any male; contrary to popular belief, we are NOT descended from mighty hunters of powerful and dangerous beasts. Through most of our evolution we were gatherers and scavengers: nuts, roots, grubs and berries. The males are bigger and stronger because they must slow down the leopard while the females and young escape. They are expendable.

And the male/female power relationship that has evolved since we civilized ourselves is now under threat. What happens when females become breadwinners, and males stay home to manage the household? We are creating a society where the most important and well paying industrial tasks can be performed as easily by women as by men, and where even the menial work is just as easily performed by either sex. What happens to "traditional family values" when the workplace does not elevate the prestige of one gender over another?

Women are becoming more educated than men, and sheer physical strength is becoming less important on the job, and women can do a lot of menial work while men are often unemployed. A society where "breadwinner" becomes detached from "man" is going to see some changes.

You're going to see a lot of pissed off old guys.