Why are surgeons paid more than brick layers?

[Dragonfli]

169. Finally an adequate answer, the poster IMO was not putting down MD's so much as supporting brickies

He was accused unfairly by many of devaluing the surgeon when I doubt that was the intent.
You are the only one to come up with an actual answer to his real question, he was questioning why such a hard job as bricklayer left a man broken young in body and completely in wallet while other tradesmen (like surgeons) are compensated fairly.

Contrary to what is thought by many here that have never learned a skilled trade, it requires skill. knowledge, years of training, and yes even talent to approach a rank of capability that is close to a living wage, I was disgusted by how the trades are looked down on as unskilled labor that one poster claimed he could learn in 5 minutes, now that would be one wall built that would pay homage to surrealism of the sort usually reserved for draped clocks dripping down objects, I would call it the wavy gravy wall and would wager it would prove how a WELL trained brickie can save one's life.

The value systems employed in the form of capitalism displayed in this country is designed to fail all but those at the top of the pyramid, and those at the top like the game rigged, it will indeed take a revolution in culture because even those the system was designed to take away from to feed the greed of the few have been brainwashed to believe in the bogus value system that screws them in the first place, that is why so many defended the doctors (who I value as highly as any other tradesman) while implying the "grunts" just don't deserve much because they are "gasp" laborers (little more than trained monkeys really), even tho they also must train and apprentice for their positions.