[thecavemaster]

Youll be glad that surgeon is well paid if you ever requiry an emergency surgery from one to save your life. Lets face it most people who are smart enough and bright enough to become one of the well paid surgeons, doctors, or lawyers are usually the smartest. Not always, but most of the time. They work hard, goto school for years and years to learn their profession and become skilled at it. None of which they would have done if they could have got a job at the local Wendy's making the same wage.

Who are these people and what do they do? If they are smart enough to become surgeosn themselves, then why are they not? I know if I thought I was smart enough to become a surgeon I would apply for Med School right now. I don't think I have the brains or the drive to goto school for that long. So I'm taking a shorter route, and I will not hold it against anyone of them who make more than me, because I know that I had the chance to do it if I wanted to. Nor would I even want that responsibility most of them have.

I would hope a surgeon is as licensed and competent as a mechanic. Still, I do not begrudge a surgeon his or her money. I do not expect everyone to make the same money. Some have more opportunity than others for lots of reasons, personal and structural and system. You, it seems to me, are forgetting that each of us is a complex mixture of heredity and environment and personal response. You are also attacking positions I do not hold, altering and adjusting my points to suit your responses.