I don’t have a house, some cocksucker who owns about 10,000 homes technically owns the place I’ve called home for about a decade.

I mean, you’ve got to pay off the house. That takes a while. You’ve got to put in labor to trade for food. You’ve got to put in labor to trade for the beer and wings at the pub. The pub staff have to keep working to serve you. The plumbers, electricians, etc. have to keep working to maintain your home, your streets, the businesses you want to shop at. People need to labor to create the goods you want to buy. Farmers work very long hours to bring food to your grocer so you can trade your labor for it. Doctors, nurses, technologists, etc, work long hours so you can get healthcare when you need it.

If you aren’t working one of the aforementioned jobs and you have enough money to pay for everything already, why should a doctor have to work any more than you are willing to work? They generally don’t need the money. But if they have the same attitude towards work as you do, you could come in to the hospital after a bad car accident to find no surgeons on site.

I work 60 hours a week on average as a diagnostic technologist. If I wanted even just the typical 40 hour work week, that means if you have a car accident after 430 pm, you don’t get xrays, fluoroscopy, or CT. No head trauma scans, no stroke alert scans to decide on TPA administration, no scans to diagnose abdominal aortic dissection or pulmonary embolism or appendix rupture. All conditions that happen every day and could easily kill you.

But maybe I should just take a load off and have a seat. After all, I’ve got a house and a pub.