I would argue that EMTs and surgical residents are ludicrously underpaid if that's the current reality.
Improving society and equalizing society can mean lifting everyone up, not keeping others down.
It's crazy to me that they feel taken advantage of, but decide the best option is to try and push down those who are even or below their pay grade, instead of focusing their sights higher at those at the top.
>While any one crab could easily escape, its efforts will be undermined by others, ensuring the group's collective demise.
Unfortunately, that's not exactly how things end up working in practice when it comes to pay because of a pesky little thing called inflation.
Inflation is amazing for debtors as it eats away at their debt over time, which is what happened for baby-boomers who were given the opportunity purchase property on credit during the long post-war US economic boom.
But if it will make you feel any better, the same argument holds for pediatrics residents, who will go on to make an average of about 135 after their decade-plus of training and loans.
Getting paid equally for both of those positions, regardless of future expectations, indicates that something might be off.
Think of it like grad school cranked to 11. More hours, harder entry requirements, bigger stipend, massive payoff at the end.