Any government worker
Most lawyers (attend a few mortgage closing and be amazed)
Real estate brokers (seriously how has this industry not been investigated for price fixing)
Just to name a few
Any government worker
Most lawyers (attend a few mortgage closing and be amazed)
Real estate brokers (seriously how has this industry not been investigated for price fixing)
Just to name a few
College administrators
US Congressmen
CE wrote:
m.e. wrote:mechanical engineer here. 6 years of pretty intense schooling to weed out the nitwits and get licensed so that i can now do a job with basic calculations and computer programming that i could've done when i was 17.
I'm a civil, but come on, most of what we do we could have done in 6th grade.
However, the license exist so that we actually have take on liability for failure. If all you all are willing to check a box to give away your rights to sue, I could design a bridge per day.
It's not even about liability.
Personally, I want intense schooling and licencing to weed out the nitwits so that I am left with a CE designing my bridge, and a ME designing this thingamajig, who think it's easy and could do it in their sleep.
What I don't want is schooling that's equal in difficulty to the job, allowing nitwits to slip by. Think about if they were the same, and there were people struggling through it barely passing. But they do pass and get a license. Those are the nitwits that go on to make big mistakes.
Hospitalist wrote:
Qwerty1 wrote:Yea, I know, I know. They do more than count pills. They help catch deadly drug interactions. Gee--a computer program could NEVER do that!
Okay, so build the program, then. Make me a robot that will round with my team and discuss various treatment options with various lists pros and cons for a patient with multiple comorbidities who is on drugs for a variety of different conditions, and I will use it if the price is right.
I believe this very thing is what IBM is trying to market Watson for
Racket wrote:
Hospitalist wrote:Okay, so build the program, then. Make me a robot that will round with my team and discuss various treatment options with various lists pros and cons for a patient with multiple comorbidities who is on drugs for a variety of different conditions, and I will use it if the price is right.
I believe this very thing is what IBM is trying to market Watson for
Sure, but the technology isn't there yet. How can future technology be used as an argument that workers are being overpaid today?
The issues that pharmacists and physicians deal with are challenging for computers because there is often no single best option. There are often a number of different options that all carry their own risks and benefits. These types of issues are still best weighed by the human brain. Computers may be able to handle this kind of task some day, but that day isn't today.
Bernie Sanders makes over 200k just hanging out in rural Vermont where literally nothing happens. His biggest decisions are probably what to do about too many ducks in the town water fountain.
HardLoper wrote:
Optometrists
Many types of lawyers
Visual media studies professors
Too many professions are underpaid due to crippling non-market factors though
When an optometrist diagnoses you with a brain tumor, or HIV, or MS - which is very difficult for MDs to diagnose - you might think differently.
Doctors at the top of the list for sure... gov't rules keep out thousands of well qualified foreigners that would love to practice here
CEO's that rely on antiquated patent and trademark protections
Th eyes have it wrote:
HardLoper wrote:Optometrists
Many types of lawyers
Visual media studies professors
Too many professions are underpaid due to crippling non-market factors though
When an optometrist diagnoses you with a brain tumor, or HIV, or MS - which is very difficult for MDs to diagnose - you might think differently.
No I won't, in the US they are still propped up by a useless law.
Sanddddders wrote:
Bernie Sanders makes over 200k just hanging out in rural Vermont where literally nothing happens. His biggest decisions are probably what to do about too many ducks in the town water fountain.
Sanders is a US Senator.
Obscure as most people don't know they're paying for it, but: title insurance and title insurance preparers.
You look up who owned the property from the guy you're buying it from, for that you get charged hundreds and then they charge you more for insurance to protect you if somebody else is going to come along and say: that's mine. Shuffling of paperwork by clerk, lawyer, insurance underwriter costs every homebuyer thousands, for something that's stratightforward and could be computerized.
Go back to school and have a good teacher. Angry unhappy somehow you employed human.
Maholo wrote:
Go back to school and have a good teacher. Angry unhappy somehow you employed human.
Can you try posting that again? Maybe rearrange some words to form a real sentence?
A "Utility Worker" (basically someone who knows how to turn a wrench) earns $30.50/hr at the dam I work at. An actual "Mechanic," someone with decent knowledge and skill, makes $41/hr. The only catch is you have to be a veteran.
Yes, I can.
Definitely professional athletes (football, baseball, basketball)
seer of things wrote:
Doctors at the top of the list for sure... gov't rules keep out thousands of well qualified foreigners that would love to practice here
That is true of virtually all professions. The "gov't rules" you are talking about are called "immigration laws" and it is worth mentioning that your chance of successfully receiving a sponsored visa to emigrate to the US and work are way, way better as a qualified physician than for any random foreigner applying to the visa lottery.
Not true at all. There are very specific rules designed to keep foreign doctors out of the US.
Adult in charge wrote:
Not true at all. There are very specific rules designed to keep foreign doctors out of the US.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/doctors-with-borders-how-the-us-shuts-out-foreign-physicians/382723/
Everyone, including US citizens, must do all the things discussed in that article in order to become a licensed physician in the US. These aren't some standards that exist only for foreigners.