Re:What a Midwife Wishes People Knew About Her Job
by oarsinsync on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:32AM
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> Paying a government-funded profession based on risk creates perverse incentives
This is horrendous and depressingly, probably true. It's important to see the incentive structure from both sides and to try and consider the unintended consequences of seemly good actions.
That doesn't detract from the position that midwives probably deserve higher pay. Tragically, the system we live in is that those that help increase capital get more pay, while those that actually do the meaningful foundational work (help bringing people to life, saving lives, teaching, all the things required to actually have a workforce that can generate capital) don't get paid enough.
This is horrendous and depressingly, probably true. It's important to see the incentive structure from both sides and to try and consider the unintended consequences of seemly good actions.
That doesn't detract from the position that midwives probably deserve higher pay. Tragically, the system we live in is that those that help increase capital get more pay, while those that actually do the meaningful foundational work (help bringing people to life, saving lives, teaching, all the things required to actually have a workforce that can generate capital) don't get paid enough.