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you know during medieval times and the victorian age there were guilds and they constrained the number of new apprentices yearly in order to bolster their own s
by mlevental 9y ago
you know during medieval times and the victorian age there were guilds and they constrained the number of new apprentices yearly in order to bolster their own salaries (and egos). if my salary goes down by 50% but twice as many people get access to a middle class lifestyle then so be it.
- rb808 9y ago> you know during medieval times and the victorian age there were guilds and they constrained the number of new apprentices yearly in order to bolster their own salaries You mean like doctors in 2017?
- mlevental 9y agoyes indeed
- dangerbird2 9y agoExcept having an unqualified cooper in the middle ages meant wine might leak out of its cask. An unqualified doctor today means people will die.
- TuringNYC 9y agoYou are assuming that every doctor not accepted into the very small Residency Class each year is unqulified. You'd be surprised to see how tiny most residency classes are in the US. Also, they are usually closed to foreign medical graduates, even the absolutely highest scorers with immaculate credentials. The more obvious explanation is that the supply is very tightly controlled by the specialty boards (essentially cartels) to ensure low supply and consistently high pay [for themselves] and higher bills for the rest of the population.
- TuringNYC 9y agoSpecialty medical boards in the US are essentially self-declared and self-enforced cartels.