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There are way more MDs making much less than you'd think. Some specializations especially are also feeling the pain of tech disruption, like optometry (most opt

There are way more MDs making much less than you'd think. Some specializations especially are also feeling the pain of tech disruption, like optometry (most optometry offices rely on glasses and contact sales, which are drying up thanks to online stores) or radiology (thanks to ML image processing).

Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
That's a good thing imo. Products should get cheaper as patents expire, economies of scale are realized, and processes are streamlined. Maybe we don't need as many optometrists today as we did a decade ago. This is where UBI would help a lot. Instead we see the protracted milking of customers that don't know better, highly trained people desperately trying to hang onto their job and lifestyle, and no ones happy except the three people bleeding the value chain dry.
- i_haz_rabies 6y ago
  I don't think it's a good thing at all when optometrists who paid for and went to school for 8+ years have to start driving ubers and those 3 bloodsuckers get to reap the rewards of destroying an entire field of medical practice... just so people can pay $30 less for ill-fitting glasses. Not to mention the result of detaching glasses from optometry care likely being fewer eye conditions caught while they are still treatable.
  - Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
    The three people profiting should be regulated out of existence. Prescriptions are still needed for glasses and contacts literally everywhere I've looked so I don't think your argument about less ocular conditions being found for for stated reason holds any water. If you want to suggest that less conditions are found because people neglect their eyes because of cost then I'll agree and offer myself as an anecdote. Really, eye doctors are failing to compete on price and if that takes some skeletons out of the force then so be it. That's one part of capitalism I appreciate. Adapt or perish.

Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago

That's a good thing imo. Products should get cheaper as patents expire, economies of scale are realized, and processes are streamlined. Maybe we don't need as many optometrists today as we did a decade ago. This is where UBI would help a lot. Instead we see the protracted milking of customers that don't know better, highly trained people desperately trying to hang onto their job and lifestyle, and no ones happy except the three people bleeding the value chain dry.

i_haz_rabies 6y ago
I don't think it's a good thing at all when optometrists who paid for and went to school for 8+ years have to start driving ubers and those 3 bloodsuckers get to reap the rewards of destroying an entire field of medical practice... just so people can pay $30 less for ill-fitting glasses. Not to mention the result of detaching glasses from optometry care likely being fewer eye conditions caught while they are still treatable.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
  The three people profiting should be regulated out of existence. Prescriptions are still needed for glasses and contacts literally everywhere I've looked so I don't think your argument about less ocular conditions being found for for stated reason holds any water. If you want to suggest that less conditions are found because people neglect their eyes because of cost then I'll agree and offer myself as an anecdote. Really, eye doctors are failing to compete on price and if that takes some skeletons out of the force then so be it. That's one part of capitalism I appreciate. Adapt or perish.