First, let me thank Howard Zinn for recognizing the value of this ongoing discussion regarding wages and benefits in China and elsewhere in Asia. As for you MGM, if you are an EFL teacher, I hope you don't teach reading skills until you have developed said skills yourself. Those of us who you so blithely describe as complainers are actually attempting to raise the awareness of others, be they in Asia now or be they planning to come here. How you manage to read that as complaining is beyond my understanding.
Personally, I have nothing to complain about. I've been in China long enough to learn the ropes. I'm quite satisfied with my current salary and benefits, but I couldn't have reached this point of satisfaction had I not learned how to negotiate from the position of knowing my true value as an instructor.
Finally, I care about my fellow EFL teachers and want them to know what they deserve - not what they should settle for.
Oh, by the way, you know what you can do with your "shut up."