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I vote we go after software engineers next! We won't earn as much, but hey, we will be able to feel good about being public servants. Its always easy to throw o

I vote we go after software engineers next! We won't earn as much, but hey, we will be able to feel good about being public servants. Its always easy to throw others under the bus... Look at what happened to the education profession. It used to be good, but its slowly been getting worse and worse. Now its generally the C students that go into education. > That's not to say they'd be paid badly, Canadian doctors under the single-payer model make $250-500K CAD Only because if they got paid less, they could move 50 miles south and get paid 2x.

arcticbull 7y ago
If you can make a good case for socializing software engineering, then I'm all ears, but I've yet to hear a good one. The difference is that a software engineer doesn't control directly the life or death of another, and doesn't provide a service we all need to maintain basic function and that of society. Health care should be a human right, some letters on a screen less so. > Only because if they got paid less, they could move 50 miles south and get paid 2x. That sounds like a market would exist regardless, does it not? Canadian physicians have little interest in working in the US because they want to serve people based on their needs and not sentencing them to death based on their inability to pay. There are serious moral issues doctors in America are payed handsomely to ignore. The interesting thing is you're arguing against your own interests here.