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0 pointsipaddr4y ago0 comments

A physician only impacts the limited patients they see where a developer can impact millions and a team leader can impact many developers who impact millions.

Using common logic we see in the field on why ic should be paid lower than team leaders.

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Ancapistani4y ago· 1 in thread

First, "physician" is not equivalent to "practicing doctor in a clinical setting".

Second, a good physician - even a run-of-the-mill family doctor - should be collaborating with their peers. They're keeping up to date on new practices and informing the next generation of those practices by reporting observations of the results of today's practices and any anomalies that arise.

I don't think it's unreasonable for some developers to make more than most physicians or for most physicians to make more than most developers. Neither field is narrowly defined.

ipaddrOP4y ago

A typical licensed physician is a run of the mill family doctor or walk-in clinic doctor. I can assure you they are spending however many hours required to keep their license but are not keeping upto date on the latest practices. They are sending people to labs where data is generated that can be used by the next generation but we are not paying lab workers 1/2 a million.

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