[dane-pgp]

I think the problem is that "How much is someone worth?" can't (or shouldn't) have a financial answer, in the same way that slavery is morally wrong.

(Yes, technically it is necessary to calculate things like the amount of money a society should spend to increase the number of Quality-Adjusted Life Years of the population as a whole, given that there are finite resources and competing things to spend them on, but even then we don't typically try to judge recipients by their skills or professions.)

If I were trapped on an island, I wouldn't want a doctor or a coder to join me, I'd want to not be trapped on the island. That's dodging the question a little, but just because a doctor might be more useful to me in some circumstances doesn't necessarily mean that I want society to produce worse outcomes for coders (or anyone else) than for doctors, except to the extent that providing better outcomes for doctors is necessary to produce more/better/enough doctors.