Re:What If You Could Do It All Over?
by imgabe on Saturday December 26, 2020 @07:52PM
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What are some of the other reasons? Suppose you could make $500k/year either by being a cardiologist or by cleaning out septic tanks. What advantages does the $500k from cardiology get you that the $500k from cleaning septic tanks does not? (Aside from impressing people at parties)
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Higher status friends, marrying into a "better family" and so on. Your family (especially more distant) will respect you more.
Also, I think a major elephant in the room: some people just feel better about themselves and sleep better, knowing that they are a big dog and can feel justified in looking down on others.
There is a great quote from A defense lawyer in the HBO show “The Undoing”:
“You know, I should say up front that, in my experience, doctors tend to be assholes. The reason they tend to be assholes is because they get to be. They're doctors.”