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Do you really think an engineer at Reddit or anywhere in the Valley generates as much value to society as a doctor?
I'm not even close to FAANG, and I earn twice as much as a nurse and slightly more than a doctor of my age. That's great for me, but I'm not worth that much. And tech workers in the USA earn even more relative to regular workers.
People aren't paid for contributing to society, they're paid to generate wealth for rich assholes. Doctors don't earn billionaires as many yachts.
And you just showed your incapability to distinguish between descriptive and normative.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
"Purpose" is the wrong category here.
I meant what I said.
Ah yes, a theorem that is so incredibly self-referential, that you could literally justify anything with it.
That's "it is what it is" for snobs.
Do you think I was justifying the way things are?
Interesting.
Programmers aren't overpaid. Doctors are underpaid.