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Poor countries, that make the poorest US state look like Monaco, have no problem producing doctors. Also, as a general point, merely looking at total subsidy a
by LetMePostMore 2y ago
Poor countries, that make the poorest US state look like Monaco, have no problem producing doctors.
Also, as a general point, merely looking at total subsidy amount means nothing without looking at the reason for the subsidy. For example, if America builds a $10B early ICBM detection facility in Alaska, it will look like America is heavily subsidizing Alaska. Except, Alaska isn't actually a real threat to be nuked - NY, SF, LA, and DC are the ones that benefit.
- ceejayoz 2y ago> Poor countries, that make the poorest US state look like Monaco, have no problem producing doctors. If you think Kansas will be happy with graduates of Afghan medical schools, by all means go for it.
- LetMePostMore 2y agoThe implication was that they could train their own doctors, not that they would import doctors from a 3rd world country.
- ceejayoz 2y agoAh, yes. A famously fast process!
- LetMePostMore 2y agoFaster or slower than setting up farm infra from near scratch to feed 140 million people?
- lovich 2y agoIt’s slower. Significantly slower. Farming is a mostly solved process now that can be automated. That’s why the labor force of agriculture went from the majority to like 2% of the population post industrialization. Being a doctor is highly incentivized financially and culturally and we haven’t seen anywhere near that level of efficiency gains of training doctors. At minimum each new doctor needs ~26 years to get to our standards. Lower it by a fuck ton, go a crazy as you want and you still are on a decade plus from deciding to mint a new dr to having your doogie bowser diagnosing people. This is the same fucking mistake the South made during the civil war[1]. The red states do not appear to understand what it takes to run a modern economy [1] “The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.”