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Re: The 1788 Doctors' Riot

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Post by mam3 » Wed, May 19, 2021, 7:49 AM UTC

msrenee wrote: post #26

mam3 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did you see that years of education "should" or in general "do" lead to higher salaries lol ?

Why shouldn't they? I never said they statistically do lead to higher salaries, just that it's reasonable to compensate someone who has put that much money and time in should be compensated for it and I don't begrudge the physicians their pay.

Salary is market value.

If you spend time studying something useless or not making money you wont get money. Its as simple as that.

Re: The 1788 Doctors' Riot

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Post by msrenee » Wed, May 19, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

mam3 wrote: post #31

msrenee wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why shouldn't they? I never said they statistically do lead to higher salaries, just that it's reasonable to compensate someone who has put that much money and time in should be compensated for it and I don't begrudge the physicians their pay.

Salary is market value. If you spend time studying something useless or not making money you wont get money. Its as simple as that.

So a medical degree is useless? The market value for a doctor is less than what they're making? I seriously don't understand what you're trying to say here.

Re: The 1788 Doctors' Riot

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Post by ZainRiz » Wed, May 19, 2021, 11:25 PM UTC

biggestdummy wrote: post #15

iDisagreedEar wrote: post #4

I'd love a good riot against Physicians in 2021. 2 centuries of corruption has lined their pockets and caused the rest of us to avoid medical care. I say this as I'm married to a doctor taking home 200-250k/yr. I don't mind shooting myself in the foot to save life.

Healthcare is so corrupt that life expectancy in the US went from 40 years old in 1880 to nearly 80 years old today. What a crime! https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

The number is a bit misleading since it mixes in child mortalities.

If you look at the life expectancy for someone who's already reached age 45, since 1880 to now the US has gone from ~70yrs -> ~81 years.

A much less significant change

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectation-age-45-b...