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My country has a massive shortage of doctors. There's also a virtual cap to how much doctors can charge for consultation - most people, outside of a small minor
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
My country has a massive shortage of doctors. There's also a virtual cap to how much doctors can charge for consultation - most people, outside of a small minority of tech elite, can't afford to pay any higher fees. My wife's uncle's fees is already high enough that only the wealthy can afford him.
The problem doesn't seem to be sorting itself out. On the contrary, it's making access to people like him even harder for all but the top 1%.
If doctor salaries were to go even higher, it would mean that people like my maid would never ever get even half-decent medical care.
The solution would be to pay the maid more, but there's an oversupply of unskilled labor and any attempt to increase their wages would be thwarted by a flood of new labor supply.
- geysersam 4y ago> there's an oversupply of unskilled labor That's interesting. What's unskilled about them? Could they not also learn some coding and marketing. Sounds like a worthwhile investment if they might 50x their salaries. (In fact, with those numbers, even if it takes them 30 years it would still 10x their life earnings...)
- unholythree 4y agoI suspect a lack of general education and/or “soft skills”. I say this as a resident of a poorer US city, there are tons of barely literate people incapable of performing simple math who also don’t know how to handle conflict or social friction effectively.
- Juliate 4y ago> The solution would be to pay the maid more, but there's an oversupply of unskilled labor The… misstep in reasoning here seems to me to consider that « maid » (and many other low-wage ones) is unskilled labor and/or painless, thus « deserves » lower wages. I can say from witnessing it first-hand that not 1 in 10 of those high-profiles engineers or managers I have met are not at all equipped to work as a maid.