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Doctors can send men in with guns to imprison, and if they resist, kill, those who engage in their profession without going through the gates of their fiefdom,
by mothballed 1y ago
Doctors can send men in with guns to imprison, and if they resist, kill, those who engage in their profession without going through the gates of their fiefdom, though.
In software you can be a nobody off the street, straight out of prison, if someone pays you money to write software then that is that.
- Avshalom 1y agoAnyone with a phone can do that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_due_to_swatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_du...
- lovich 1y agoThe doctors cannot send in men with guns, the government can if it feels that’s against the law, and you’re not going to be killed for just “resisting”. In the software world we also take on zero fucking liability for just building software on the street or is your circle full of people who commonly carry Software Malpractice Insurance? FYI, the men with guns come for software engineers as well if the rich want it. Look up Sergey Aleynikov
- mothballed 1y agoThe odds of getting collared for practicing medicine without a license/credentials are orders of magnitude higher than getting collared for writing software, or even practice engineering even though that's sometimes a licensed field. AMA is the biggest gatekeeper in getting there.
- lovich 1y agoYes, the odds of getting arrested for breaking the law are higher than if you don’t break the law. Look you’re obviously against the AMA, and there’s arguments against their guild and its practices that I’m amenable to, but trying to pin the financial problems with our healthcare system on them is ludicrous given how many other large problems are in the system. Insurance middlemen are undoubtedly a bigger cost