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We never seem to have this problem for any field other than law enforcement or military. In other professions, if you mess up aggressively, there are repercussions professionally.

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There are? Like when Goldman Sachs needed a bailout ... and then used half of it to pay bonuses to their execs that had gotten them into the mess in the first place? Or politicians mismanaging things, only to be re-elected or, worst case, switch to a cushy job on the board of some corporation?

I'm not sure there are that many professions where you get exiled or go to jail for failure.

If doctors or lawyers fuck up bad enough, losing their license is one possible, if rare, outcome. Those professions are still very popular.

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