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Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by whiplash451 on Monday March 20, 2023 @04:49PM (#35238472)
The comparison with doctors is irrelevant because there is a fixed amount of conditions to fix (and hence a fixed demand for doctors) hence the capping, while there is no such thing for software engineers.

If there was a sudden influx of 5000 doctors, we’d end up with 5000 doctors seating idle.

I doubt the same would happen with 5000 engineers.

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Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by myroon5 on Monday March 20, 2023 @05:04PM (#35238690)
There are large countries with more than twice as many doctors per capita as America:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

Hundreds of thousands more doctors could work in America without any sitting idle

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Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by vineyardmike on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:05PM (#35239438)
> If there was a sudden influx of 5000 doctors, we’d end up with 5000 doctors seating idle.

I think we'd actually see an uptick in the amount of americas getting treated for their conditions. And a decrease in the number of doctors that work over 60hrs a week. But maybe not, there are a lot of Americans that need help.

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