aba1 said:
Count Igor said:
Back to the doctor thing for a minute: Let's say the Janitors have aaaall disappeared from the hospital, that's a *****, right? But not a game over situation. Anyone could help clean the hospital with a 20 minute crash course, and plenty of people willing to help - Hell, if needs be, the on-call doctors (Or even ones with the day off) could do the cleaning and be paid extra.
But if there were no doctors, no amount of Janitors are going to be able to perform the surgery, prescribe the pills and diagnose the illness.
So your saying that if there were no janitors than they would just hire someone to be a janitor? That logic makes no sense because then there are still janitors. If you are trying to make the point that they are more easily replaced I will agree but if you are saying they are less important I really have to disagree.
Education does not make a job more important it just means it takes more knowledge to do.
Just like a company owner is not more important than his workers because without them nothing gets done they are what makes the operation go sure his job is a one man thing which makes him unique but more important I disagree.
Yes, it's saying they're easily replaced - I didn't say that no-one could ever be a janitor, I said that the current ones disappeared.
The education required for a doctor makes the individual person more important, as few people can do what they can, while many many people can do what a janitor does. Even if anyone can be a doctor, like anyone can be a janitor, the job itself is still more important, as each doctor has great significance to each patient's life.
Another one is that if someone is suffering from a mysterious illness, and a mediocre doctor can't do anything, because they cannot diagnose it, while a fantastic one
can, then the potential for the job (As in, when you are really skilled at it, then you can have a very large impact on the world/people) has a wide range. But a really good janitor.. what can he do? Be slightly faster? That job has very low potential.
With your company idea, you're comparing a single man to an entire staff - If that one owner had never been born, then the company would likely not exist now, because it rests solely on him. If he dies, then there's a good chance the whole company goes into turmoil, or goes bankrupt, or simply just suffers a big setback.
But if a single worker was never born, or dies, it really doesn't matter to the company either way.
The owner has great significance and value to the company, which is the very definition
of important. The worker has very little.
