> The alternative is, if you don't incentivize someone financially to spend a decade studying medicine, they won't or they will immigrate to somewhere where the

> The alternative is, if you don't incentivize someone financially to spend a decade studying medicine, they won't or they will immigrate to somewhere where they can. People already have plenty of incentive to become doctors. We just don't let them. Medical schools collude to limit the number of medical students each year (under the guise of preventing having "too many" doctors). Medical schools have ridiculous selection criteria, like picking the candidates who earned an "A" in physics instead of a "B", or who came from a rich enough family that they could perform many hours of volunteer community work (mostly because the low quotas make it otherwise impossible to select candidates without literally rolling dice). You know what? I think tech workers aren't paid enough. There isn't enough incentive to become a tech worker. We should limit how many people can study CS each year with strict quotas. It should be illegal for a person to program a computer unless they have a CS degree from an accredited school (one in on the quota system) and have passed an exam. Practicing programming without a license (or practicing from a foreign country with a local license) should be illegal, punishable by time in jail. Finally, programmers should have access to computer tools (like encryption) which will be illegal for the rest of the population to possess, and be given the benefit of the doubt if/when they misuse them. Do you see how ridiculous this sounds?