Anyone is “worth” whatever the market pays them. In a FREE market, if someone is being “overpaid” then MORE people work to get to that level. If they cannot then guess what you get paid what you get paid.
It is not for YOU or ME to decide what someone should be paid.
If a NFL star is paid $10 million then that is because of all the hundreds of thousands of people who tried out in a free and fair effort to be quarterbacks, he was the best and that is what he is worth to the businessman who pays him
If there was a free and fair market for Doctors where anyone who was smart and studied hard and PASSED all the QUALIFICATIONS to become a doctor then fine, he/she should get what the market will bear
Instead you have a cartel now that artificially holds down the number of doctors
So back to your dumbass socialist/communist argument, in that case my elementary and primary school teachers should be paid $1 million a year ,because till date (and I am in my 40s) they did more good for me than any doctor I have ever met. And while we are at it, the Car Mechanic who fixes my car is worth $1 million too because he keeps my car running so that my family and I do not die
Also, the bus driver who is driving my two kids who I love more than anything in the world, should get $1 million since he is keeping them alive
And .. the Airline pilot that flie my family deserves to keep $10 million a year as his salary as he is keeping 300 people alive at a time
End the CARTEL now. US doctors are overpaid due to the cartel. Open up more Med Schools. Let AMERICANS become doctors. Let us stop sending our kids to freaking Antigua to get a medical education
Thanks for my laugh of the day. Of course, you are 110% right in your valuations of your auto mechanic, teachers, pilots, electricians and everyone else who enables you to live in comfort and safety.
If you spoke to your mechanic as you speak of doctors, he’d throw you out of his garage. Insult your electrician and you’ll end up in the dark.
Insult me in my profession and you are out.
Each and every professional is truly worth what the market will pay. (not exactly socialist/communist thought)
Doctors do NOT operate in a free market. They operate in a world dictated by politician, lawyers, bureaucrats, do-gooders and whiners.
In YOUR highly respected profession, how would you like to live under the direction of varied people whose aim was to make it more and more difficult to properly do your job.
I “almost” think that something went wrong along the way and it has affected your thinking.