Sounds like income envy to me.
I worked on a contract once where the lowest paid guy there made $27 an hour and the highest paid guy made just under $250 an hour. They all did the same work. I respected that the guy that made the higher salary was able to negotiate that and really did not respect the guy at the bottom. I’m only saying my acquaintence intelligently took advantage of a system that really should not exist. But while it does, why not take advantage of it.
Kinda like professional sports careers.
Regarding income, I moved from Seattle to a small farm in central Kentucky and “gave up a high standard of living for a high quality of life.” At my age and level of wisdom, you figure out that money is a very relative thing. It is not what I pursue, directly.
I understand. However, I’m speaking from my viewpoint of being a medical equipment repairman so many decades ago during the heyday of the onslaught of government intervention and the rise of the lawyer brigand.
When you slap the moniker “medical” on it, you open yourself up to a plethora of potential claims from a massive cabal of daytime TV lawyer group advertisers that are BEGGING for someone to come forth and sign with them because they had this device, that practice, that medical implant - whatever used on them. BILLIONS of dollars of added liability.
It is tort and government regulations that drives up the price, not competition, not cheating, not relative worth. Those willing to go the distance and put up with the regulations, the liability and the other roadblocks reap the rewards.