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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not the most die hard capitalist, but even I understand appreciate that extra effort needs to be associated with an extra reward.

Education is super important, but let’s not even begin to pretend that the rigor professional training of medicine or even corporate law is the same as teaching. People in those fields really grind it out for college + professional school + residency/Big Law. Doesn’t mean teachers don’t work hard, but it’s truly apples and oranges. [/quote]

Yes and no. Though the “rigor” may be more, the actual stumbling block is that the PRICE of those programs is astronomical at this point and therefore unavailable to middle class (not upper middle class, but actual middle class) people.  It isn’t the intelligence/school smarts that is the blockade here, it is the price of those programs.  Engineering is more competitive to get into for undergrad, and I would argue is where the actual smart middle class people go.  Residency/big law is for smart people who come from more money. You will probably fight this idea because you need to think you are more intelligent than the great unwashed middle class.  Proceed, governor.[/quote]

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