Why do doctors and lawyers make more money than physicists?

[0rthodontist]

You would be dead without doctors, you know that right? Sure, scientists develop medicines, but its the doctors who are responsible for learning when to use it effectively and how it will affect you. Sure, scientists developed penicilin, but if your allergic to penicillin, its you doctors, job to find another antibiotic that will work effectively against that pathogen.

This whole debate is like saying which is more important in a computer, software or hardware. Both are important, the computer wouldn't exist and function without both. Without hardware, it wouldn't physically be there, and without software it would just be a useless circuit. So let this thread die.

Well, with physicists and engineers you have a working modern society even if you don't have doctors, but with just doctors you are in the stone age, so it is clear that the scientists matter more.

 

[G01]

But what if physics is the computer and the medical doctor is the software? Wouldn't it seem odd thatthe software is valued more than the whole of the system?

The point that I was trying to make was that both doctors and scientists are part of a greater whole and each do there job. Whether one is easier than the other is a matter of opinion. I have a friend who loves computer science and finds it easy. I find it hard. I like physics, but i from what I hear the biology labs at my school sound much more challenging than the physics labs I take. But that's my OPINION. Yes, physics is definitely the most important science considering it is thefundamental science, but that doesn't make a physicst any more important than any other person in society. The laws of physics will still be there without him.

Hell A physicist wouldn't be able to function without garbage collectors because they would be too busy disposing all of their trash.

I'm sorry, but if you want to be a physicist in order to be more important than someone else, you are mistaken, because you won't be.

 

[0rthodontist]

Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say that physics is the most important science, except historically where of course it is. I would say that honor goes to artificial intelligence at the moment.

 

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First thing you know the easier things are the more complex they are.


I always wonder who would be better off, businessman trying to a scientest's job or a scientest trying to do a businessman's job.

 

[Poop-Loops]

Neither. Different thinking patterns and goals. I would absolutely HATE to be a business person. The whole concept makes me cringe. Being a part-time salesperson is bad enough. Doing it full time on a huge scale would make me want to commit suicide. Tiptoeing around problems, making up excuses, and outright lying are the bread and butter of businesspeople. I hate that. If I ever start some physics/techinology related business, I will fire anybody who tries to do that and will FORCE people to b!tchslap me if I do.

Then again, if a businessman sees all those numbers and letters and symbols, he will pee his pants.