Originally Posted by hindsight2020

You keep parroting that, yet continually fail to see the connection, and thus the answer to your own question. Not aiming this singularly at you, but people like you are effectively the reason pay is the way it is. We call this: price inelasticity of supply. Put in other words, when elastic players do not make black, they exit stage. Pay goes up. When inelastic players do not make black, they subsidize their pursuit in order to remain in the market. Pay stays down. This is rational behavior when it comes to attaining medical care; it is not rational when it comes to getting your jollies off playing jet pilot.