u/achicomp

There is a societal bias against women getting high paying STEM jobs. It starts from the ground up. Hardly any women are in the upper level high school math team competitions or winning them (8-10% girls, 90% boys) for USAMO, IMO etc and so this disadvantages women to getting the lucrative AI researcher jobs and jobs at Amazon Google Facebook etc. women aren’t helped enough by society to go into math or chess (only 10% of active chess competitors are women) so they can’t do well in STEM.

Meanwhile women make up majority of med schools becoming doctors today (55%) and nurses are 90% women, nurse practitioners are 90% women, also and millions more women are in college than men (58% of college students are women now, 42% men). Despite women clearly smart and lots of good paying jobs in healthcare and most of the college degrees, it proves they can outcompete men yet somehow women still only make up 20% of STEM degrees and jobs.

Thus society keeps the massive gender wage gap in favor of women. CMV

In 1960, only about 40% of American adults over age 25 had completed high school. By 1993, that number surged to over 80%. 

In 1960, only 10% of adults held a four-year college degree. By Clinton's presidency, that number more than doubled to 22%.

Yet JFK spoke at a college educated level, and Clinton dropped DOWN to middle school level.

Why?

Also, when Washington was president, did he speak complex 16th grade language only because he knew the voting pool was wealthy educated property owners? But that won’t explain the decline in speech comprehension grade levels in the 20th century?

Wasn’t India colonized by the West for a long time? Wouldn’t they have had significant exposure to Western classical music?

Yet Indians for many decades are hardly ever represented (essentially zero) at the top music schools like Juilliard and Curtis.

Why?

Whole chicken was $1.50 and sirloin steak $0.50 on a 1900 NY Putney’s daily menu

Why was chicken crazy expensive vs steak??

Why would Stalin withdraw from Iran just because of the UN? Would America really have started a war with the USSR over this issue?

You took a deserving, limited med school spot that could have gone to some other doctor slave who can work for society for 70 years!

Becoming a doctor is a calling! Like a religion! You have to work 50-60 hours a week forever to save lives, not to leave with money and to enjoy life!

There is already a physician shortage! Leaving means more work for everyone else and burnout for others! Patients have to wait longer to see a doctor!

Why is it only the tech bros get applause for quitting to play on the beach?

I have 4 kids. I can’t stomach the thought of paying for 4 kids’ worth of college and med school tuition. It was grueling to pay off my hundreds of thousands in med school loans.

Cheaper to prep them to be midlevels?

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/nurse-practitioner-is-now-the-hottest-job-in-healthcare-a98e0bc8?mod=mhp

Becky Peterson graduated this month with a degree that paves the way for her to examine patients, prescribe medication and make diagnoses, just like a physician. But she won’t be Dr. Peterson, and her graduate program took just two years.
Instead, she is becoming a nurse practitioner, a good-paying job that is also the fastest-growing field in healthcare. 

“There is a place for medical-school doctors, and a place for nurse practitioners. And all of us are trying to do the same thing, which is meet the needs of people who need help,” said Peterson, who graduated from a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill program and lives in Morrisville, N.C. She is now preparing for a certification exam and will start a mental-health residency this fall.

“Doctors cost a lot of money and nurse practitioners don’t,” said Brian McKillop, president of physician solutions at staffing company AMN Healthcare. He said employer appetite for healthcare workers whose abilities overlap with doctors—but don’t have an MD—is at an all-time high.

Meanwhile, Peterson’s two-year nurse practitioner program cost around $50,000, a fraction of what she would have spent on medical school. By contrast, the average medical-school graduate leaves with $207,000 in debt. The less-grueling training made it easier to plan and raise a family, said Peterson, who like most NPs received her bachelor of science in nursing before going on to get her advanced degree.

Patients in rural areas, in particular, have come to rely on nurse practitioners. According to federal data, 66% of rural Medicare recipients say they see a nurse practitioner or physician assistant for some or all of their medical care, compared with the 54% of urban residents who say the same. 

From reading wikipedia, apparently a super old Caesar’s law was enforced by emperor Tiberius, that required lenders to own land in Italy in order to stop money from leaving Rome and going to other countries, and this somehow forced a “great financial crisis”, which Tiberius had to correct by injecting millions of sesterces back into the economy.

Do we know why exactly this was intended? Was this the equivalent of a modern policy thinking trying to “ make rome great again” and making “Rome first” but backfired?