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by ArkyBeagle
3688 days ago
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The American middle class has been quite the overall force for positive change - in the dimensions where it can change things. IMO, the "attack on the middle class" narrative is the other side of the advertising seduction dance - put people off balance so you can butter 'em up again. I think the attraction of medicine and law is status. And you can't do anything about that. That's how hu-mans are wired. |
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Oh no! They got to you too! :-)
If you have an opportunity take a gander at "Ben's Mill" It's a short twenty minute documentary on youtube. I think it is very revealing about the kind of self confidence and respect the working class used to have in western countries but which is now lost.
If nothing else it is a beautiful illustration of how things were, it's well worth the watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2KJbRHO76s
To render all those people unto 'trailer trash' 'white trash', is despicable. You can tell a lot about people by how they treat others they consider their inferiors.
Doctors are responsible for killing their patients by virtue of not being efficient and by preventing technological adaptions. Even properly done digital medical records are impossible in the present world. I'm sure you read recently on HN that medical staff error is responsible for an incredible number of deaths. When I think: heart disease and cancer, it seems incredible that you should add 'Doctor' into the mix of things most likely to kill us, yet it is so.
Lawyers are harming the economic progress of in the main. Don't even think that is very controversial here. Niall Ferguson has outright accused them of this, that's the establishment!
On balance saying doctors and lawyers are a positive force for good is a crapshoot. Maybe so. Maybe there's objective evidence against the intuitive position. Just maybe, they're parasites in a parasitical system that is getting worse with their intransigeance.