Posted: Sep 29, 2018 11:12 am
Thommo wrote:No, not literally all of them. Just far, far more than you can afford to do so.
You know this because...what...doctors are well known to usually be primarily motivated by financial greed?
Thommo wrote:At present, in reality, Britain isn't producing enough doctors even with the current incentive structure.
Cuba doesn't have that problem.
Thommo wrote:I think the speed with which you resort to threats of punishment is probably symptomatic of exactly why this idea of enforced equality of outcome fails in practice.
Most people seem to be in favour of a more equal society
incentive/disincentive/punishment - 3 sides of the same coin, it's wrong to shy away from the word punishment completely although it is an emotive word. Hasn't been tried yet so how can it have failed?Thommo wrote:For the record, a typical doctor is not paid a six figure salary in the UK.
Yeh, I know, and if they were paid 1.5 times as much as a bin man they'd be on 47kpa.
Thommo wrote:There's also the secondary problem of what happens to economies that do not even strive to allocate resources efficiently, in accordance with the value they present to society.
They wouldn't be full of chuggers, PPI and doubleglazing cold callers etc ad infinitum. Newsflash - many desires are not rational or advisable. Market failures 101.