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In reply to the discussion: Why are surgeons paid more than brick layers? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)with the implications spelled out:
I could easily have been a brick layer, except for the fact that others would not have hired me for the job because of legal discrimination at the time, when I was young. But on my part, I could've done it...I had the skills, the education, etc.
A black man could easily have been a brick layer, too, but for the fact that in the area I'm from, he wouldn't have been hired either.
It's not an insult to list the qualifications of a bricklaying job, and they happen to be less than for a plastic surgeon. That's why one gets paid a lot of $$$, and one does not.
Don't take things so personally. This is a case of facts. You'll never make it in the business world or employment world if you can't take the reality of facts. If you WANT to get paid over $200,000 a year, go for the surgeon profession rather than the bricklaying vocation.