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It's funny what most of us consider "a lot of money". An uber driver yesterday mentioned overhearing two organ replacement surgeons talking at his gym in Palo
by davidjnelson 10y ago
It's funny what most of us consider "a lot of money". An uber driver yesterday mentioned overhearing two organ replacement surgeons talking at his gym in Palo Alto. One said, "man, the pay sucks. It's only $13,000,000 a year :-(". And the other one responded "sheesh, come work for us and we could at least get you up to $19,000,000 a year." Kind of puts things in perspective...
- jxramos 10y agoYah, the free market is an amazing thing where free individuals freely agree upon rates even as astounding as those figures. The even cooler thing is that there even exist institutions that can fit that into their payroll! Maybe cooler still is that economies exist that even hold institutions such as those. I remember going to this Bay.net talk with Juval Lowy who beat down on everyone calling devs code monkeys who got paid peanuts. Haha, ~100K range is definitely peanuts compared to a seven figure salary. What a world.
- dangerlibrary 10y agoAlmost nothing about healthcare in the United States resembles a functioning market, much less one worth marveling at because of all the freely available choices being made.
- spacecowboy_lon 10y agoFMH I wonder what the Surgeons I have met (I am on a transplant list in the UK) would say to that.
- smitherfield 10y agoIANAD, but that sounds impossibly high. Sure they weren't joking or discussing how much their malpractice insurance policies cover?