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raincoleyesterday at 8:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Doctors have no skin in the game too. Our society is built on the illusion of 'skin in the game' of professionals like doctors and lawyers (and to a lesser extent, engineers), but it's still an illusion.


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clickety_clacktoday at 12:43 AM

Engineers to a _lesser_ extent? Maybe software engineers, but for every other engineer, theres very tangible results and they absolutely get sued when things go wrong, and the governing bodies strip engineers of their licenses for malpractice all the time.

Source: I used to be a geotechnical engineer and left it because of the ridiculous personal risk you take on for the salary you get.