Roland Perry wrote:


Why does a dentist deserve a Merc if a road sweeper doesn't?

Very good question.

Because if you got paid the same for being road sweeper, with no
worries, no comeback and no 7 year training course to PAY BACK, no one
would BE a dentist.

Another twist is the reason you pay a bank manager a LOT of money to BE
a bank manager. Because he has a LOT more to lose if he starts messing
around with other peoples money, and less reason to have to, than if he
is a road sweeper.


When you pay a professional person a professional fee, it reflects the
enormous amount of training they (should) have had, and it reflects the
care they are expected to display towards your professional problem,and
it reflects the insurance they have to pay against getting it badly wrong.

You are in fact endorsing a point of view that says that they are, and
should be, somewhat more diligent and better trained and insured than
you might expect a road sweeper to be.

Its all part of the fallacy of equality. That insists that someones
actual worth, as against some numenous human worth, is the same as
anyone elses, but also insists that their actual job, must be as
demanding as their ability to do it.

The sort of silly soschlist POV that inisits that anyone cold be a Nobel
prize winning mathematician, or a brain surgeon, or an airline pilot, no
matter what they are or how disabled, as long as a proper policy of
equal opportunity were to be enforced by the State.

You have to be pretty stupid to believe that: Sadly, it seems, enough
people actually are.