This must be some new definition of “suffer” that I was not previously aware of.
But don't let me get in the way of your prejudices, it's always fun to kick an unpopular person in public for the general amusement.
There are entrepreneurs who have led companies to provide great value for their customers, employees, and stockholders, and entrepreneurs who have led companies straight into the ground. There are doctors who work heroically and insightfully to save lives and there are doctors who are more interested in satisfying their God complex than actually caring for patients. There are lawyers who help right the injustices of the world and lawyers who just look for excuses to run up their bills.
I don’t see why we should assume, a priori, that fewer bright and ambitious people in business and more in law or medicine will be a net social loss.
That's a pretty shallow explanation though, because the question is why. Assuming some level of supply and demand still applies to the medical profession, people seem to go to specialists more often than GP's even for things a GP could probably handle. But why do they do that? One possible explanation is that people don't like doctors, so they only go when something is wrong with them, at which point they spend most of their time seeing a specialist for that particular ailment and then forgetting about it.
Oh, yeah, liability. A GP can reduce their liability by referring you to someone else pretty often.
It's also possible that being a specialist carries other benefits, like prestige and status and personal interest.
Also, the parent joined HN 12 days after you.
So by implication business isn't a field that particularly matters. People passionate about startups just wouldn't agree with that.
> Also, the parent joined HN 12 days after you.
I was more talking about the voters (both parent up voters and my down voters). Anyone can make a throw away comment but voting patterns say something. It would be really interesting to know the average 'age' of the up-voters and what other posts/comments where correlated. I'm detecting a growing 'arts studenty', anti-capitalist, humanist, complaining sentiment here (i.e. reddit). I'd prefer a community that has a deeper interest in getting stuff done rather than complaining about the 'system'.