Doctors can be exploited further because they're typically in far deeper. More medical debt, more education, more of their life has been given to the medical wo

Doctors can be exploited further because they're typically in far deeper. More medical debt, more education, more of their life has been given to the medical world. To leave that would be to throw it all away. Maybe they'd be happier that way anyway. On the flip side, they know they're making a genuine difference in people's lives. Doctors do incredibly important work, and if they just don't show up, people can die. If a programmer doesn't show up for work, In many cases, an ad tragically goes unclicked, or a feature doesn't get released for a few extra days. There are absolutely more meaningful jobs for programmers, where they have more impact on the product, get to actually influence lives, or work with challenging and fulfilling technical problems. But most of them aren't doing that.