This is basically what I was going to say. Especially with the computing power we have at our disposal today, we could make all sorts of adjustments - even in real time - to make sure certain kinds work gets done. Wages, hours, vacation time, etc.
Imagine how many lazy doctors and lazy nurses we could have if we trained doctors and nurses based on need and on the assumption that doctors should get lots of rest instead of letting private universities train just enough doctors to keep the profession extremely rare and valuable. All our medical people could live in modest homes and work modest hours and have modest case loads if we just trained enough of them to meet the needs of our society and didn't make them pay for their education or fight for a limited number of slots in the "Right" schools.
This is basically what I was going to say. Especially with the computing power we have at our disposal today, we could make all sorts of adjustments - even in real time - to make sure certain kinds work gets done. Wages, hours, vacation time, etc.
Imagine how many lazy doctors and lazy nurses we could have if we trained doctors and nurses based on need and on the assumption that doctors should get lots of rest instead of letting private universities train just enough doctors to keep the profession extremely rare and valuable. All our medical people could live in modest homes and work modest hours and have modest case loads if we just trained enough of them to meet the needs of our society and didn't make them pay for their education or fight for a limited number of slots in the "Right" schools.