The historic UAW strike puts an exclamation point on more than a decade of efforts by Washington lawmakers to narrow the pay gap between top executives and workers.

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    1 year ago

    Is that why doctor are so under paid/s they aren’t based on skill or education?

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      1 year ago

      Doctors are highly paid because they are scarce. You’ll note that surgeons in the UK, as an example, make about a third or less of what a US surgeon makes.

      Our residency system, coincidentally, induces artificial scarcity of doctors