Opinions on time worked vs intelligence

[Misaki]

Survey, no login required: Opinions on time worked vs intelligence

Mods, if this is the wrong forum, please move it. But I think it fits in Education. Education is related to intelligence, after all. We may have 60% of all high school graduates going to college in some countries like the US, but if there aren't enough jobs that require college, it just leads to fast food restaurants requiring college degrees for no other reason than that they can. It makes sense for society not to encourage people to go to college if it doesn't need them to. In a way, education is like working; this was the argument made by a doctor for why a doctor earning $205k per year in 2010 was only earning a few dollars an hour more than a high school teacher.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Survey, no login required: Opinions on time worked vs intelligence

Mods, if this is the wrong forum, please move it. But I think it fits in Education. Education is related to intelligence, after all. We may have 60% of all high school graduates going to college in some countries like the US, but if there aren't enough jobs that require college, it just leads to fast food restaurants requiring college degrees for no other reason than that they can. It makes sense for society not to encourage people to go to college if it doesn't need them to. In a way, education is like working; this was the argument made by a doctor for why a doctor earning $205k per year in 2010 was only earning a few dollars an hour more than a high school teacher.

The doctor's calculations regarding teachers is incredibly wrong and naïve.

 

[Misaki]

The doctor's calculations regarding teachers is incredibly wrong and naïve.

The original post is no longer available, but we can still see the results of the poll the doctor made here: Do physicians make too much money? - Results (poll 3372231)

With 72,458 votes, 88% of people said doctors don't make too much money, but I rather suspect a large proportion of them were doctors.

One might ask another question: "Should the US have more institutions to train doctors, to bring down the price of becoming one and also the salary of doctors through greater supply?" How many doctors would agree to this?

(Note that in the US, there are other factors like the increase in administrative staff and the lack of regard people have for hospital prices that are more responsible for high health care costs than physician salaries.)