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here is a way to rationalize it (not sure if this helps you) doctors provide very valuable services to dozens - hundreds of people (treating disease). youtube/

here is a way to rationalize it (not sure if this helps you) doctors provide very valuable services to dozens - hundreds of people (treating disease). youtube/sports celebrities provide a small amount of value to 100k - millions of people (amusement or entertainment). so the value they get back from society is because of the number of people touched, not the depth of value for each person. If we figure out how to scale disease treatment like we scaled entertainment, then (fewer) doctors would be wayyy richer than entertainment stars.

lotsofpulp 5y ago
Intersection of supply and demand curves is the only thing needed to understand prices.
matheusmoreira 5y ago
That makes sense to me but it still doesn't help... It just doesn't seem right to me that some random person can make a meme video and become a millionaire off of the ads alone. A society that enables these aberrations is sick and needs to be fixed. I used doctors as an example but engineers are also comically undervalued in my country despite their extremely valuable and necessary contributions to society. It's a joke. > doctors provide very valuable services to dozens - hundreds of people I think this scale is a bit off. Doctors see thousands of patients per year.