When there are more people who want to do a job, than there are slots for doing that job, no matter what the economic system you have to do one of three things:

When there are more people who want to do a job, than there are slots for doing that job, no matter what the economic system you have to do one of three things: 1) pay lower wages until some of the people leave the profession 2) use some kind of essentially random (even if theoretically bureaucratic or administrative) method to assign those slots to people; for example, you can only do this job if your parents happen to be people in the industry 3) vicious back-stabbing politics and sharp elbows, as people who want those jobs suck up to the ones who get to choose who gets them 4) conditions (other than wages) in that profession get so bad that people become dispirited and drop out You also see this in certain areas of academia, or in the music industry, or many other fields. There can be combinations of these methods, of course. The best way around this conundrum (that I know of), is to do this as an avocation rather than a vocation. For example, the many people who have composed music, written novels, etc. on the side while earning their money in other ways. It's not a perfect method, but it's the best (least soul-eating) way I know of.