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It’s all just bullshit for the sake of it. For example, if you want to clean the feet of horses you need a bachelors degree in horse feet cleaning. Why? It’s l
by MagicMoonlight 4y ago
It’s all just bullshit for the sake of it.
For example, if you want to clean the feet of horses you need a bachelors degree in horse feet cleaning. Why? It’s literally just scraping their foot with a scraper. That’s the extent of what you do. But society says you need to spend 3 years in order to do it.
We basically just invent these arbitrary time requirements in order to restrict the supply of people and allow morons to do these careers. Without the time requirements, anyone could do it. That’s bad for the people who currently do it.
Take doctors for example. Multiple years of medical school and then 10 years of GP training… for what? They don’t invent treatments or do surgery. They basically don’t do anything. So why does it take 15 years? To stop people competing with them.
- 908B64B197 4y ago> Take doctors for example. Multiple years of medical school and then 10 years of GP training… for what? They don’t invent treatments or do surgery. They basically don’t do anything. So why does it take 15 years? To stop people competing with them. The market is starting to price in that extra regulation and protectionism with the rise of alternate providers such as nurse practitioners. It's unclear to me, as a consumer, why I should prefer a general practitioner to a nurse practitioner considering the number of relevant years of schooling are roughly the same.
- ethanbond 4y agoI’m pretty sure medicine became professionalized because of the abysmal state of medical treatment prior to it. It’s probably largely outmoded now though, given the access to information that everyone enjoys.
- lm28469 4y agoOpen a history book about medicine malpractices and you'll have all your answers Same for pretty much every safety rules. Why do you even wear a seat belt ? statically you'll never be in an accident