If the dentist is not there, the hygienist has no job. A lot of offices will have several hygienists to one dentist. Is the dentist 10x more valuable to the continued operation of the establishment? Yes.

This is "the secretary is just important as the boss" thinking. They're not. If the clerical work was as important as the main job, the boss would be doing it themselves or split with an equal partner. The whole reason those specific tasks are offloaded is because they're doable by someone with less specialized skills, less training, and less experience.

Your post gets way to caught up in how it "feels" and misses reality completely. If every hygienist became a dentist, you'd have a bunch of dentists spending most of their time doing hygienist tasks, while being in competition with one another and under pressure to cut costs to compete (because the cost of dental care just skyrocketed). It would logically give rise to a specialized position to do the repetitive bulk tasks for less pay but also less investment. Which people would only accept if the effort/value proposition was amenable to them. It's not "slavery" or "humiliation," is basic-ass division of labor and a market working properly.

You're right about income taxes being bullshit though.

But back to your original question, why do you do what you do instead of having reached whatever the peak of power, money, and influence is? Are you happy being a slave? You're positing that it can only be habit or pleasure. You're also positing that you hate that. So you must incredibly successful, right? Because it'd be neither habit nor pleasure for you.

If the dentist is not there, the hygienist has no job. A lot of offices will have several hygienists to one dentist. Is the dentist 10x more valuable to the continued operation of the establishment? Yes.

This is "the secretary is just important as the boss" thinking. They're not. If the clerical work was as important as the main job, the boss would be doing it themselves or split with an equal partner. The whole reason those specific tasks are offloaded is because they're doable by someone with less specialized skills, less training, and less experience.

Your post gets way to caught up in how it "feels" and misses reality completely. If every hygienist became a dentist, you'd have a bunch of dentists doing hygienist tasks, while being in competition with one another and under pressure to cut costs to compete (because the cost of dental care just skyrocketed). It would logically give rise to a specialized position to do the repetitive bulk tasks for less pay but also less investment. Which people would only accept if the effort/value proposition was amenable to them. It's not "slavery" or "humiliation," is basic-ass division of labor and a market working properly.

You're right about income taxes being bullshit though.

But back to your original question, why do you do what you do instead of having reached whatever the peak of power, money, and influence is? Are you happy being a slave? You're positing that it can only be habit or pleasure. You're also positing that you hate that. So you must incredibly successful, right? Because it'd be neither habit nor pleasure for you.

If the dentist is not there, the hygienist has no job. A lot of offices will have several hygienists to one dentist. Is the dentist 10x more valuable to the continued operation of the establishment? Yes.

This is "the secretary is just important as the boss" thinking. They're not. If the clerical work was as important as the main job, the boss would be doing it themselves or equals partner. The whole reason those specific tasks are offloaded is because they're doable by someone with less specialized skills, less training, and less experience.

Your post gets way to caught up in how it "feels" and misses reality completely. If every hygienist became a dentist, you'd have a bunch of dentists doing hygienist tasks, while being in competition with one another and under pressure to cut costs to compete (because the cost of dental care just skyrocketed). It would logically give rise to a specialized position to do the repetitive bulk tasks for less pay but also less investment. Which people would only accept if the effort/value proposition was amenable to them. It's not "slavery" or "humiliation," is basic-ass division of labor and a market working properly.

You're right about income taxes being bullshit though.

But back to your original question, why do you do what you do instead of having reached whatever the peak of power, money, and influence is? Are you happy being a slave? You're positing that it can only be habit or pleasure. You're also positing that you hate that. So you must incredibly successful, right? Because it'd be neither habit nor pleasure for you.

If the dentist is not there, the hygienist has no job. A lot of offices will have several hygienists to one dentist. Is the dentist 10x more valuable to the continued operation of the establishment? Yes.

This is "the secretary is just important as the boss" thinking. They're not. If the clerical work was as important as the main job, the boss would be doing it themselves or equals partner. The whole reason those specific tasks are offloaded is because they're doable by someone with less specialized skills, less training, and less experience.

Your post gets way to caught up in how it "feels" and misses reality completely. If every hygienist became a dentist, you'd have a bunch of dentists doing hygienist tasks, while being in competition with one another and under pressure to cut costs to compete (because the cost of dental care just skyrocketed). It would logically give rise to a specialized position to do the repetitive bulk tasks for less pay but also less investment. Which people would only accept if the effort/value proposition was amenable to them. It's not "slavery" or "humiliation," is basic-ass division of labor and a market working properly.

You're right about income taxes being bullshit though.

But back to your original question, why do you do what you do instead of having reached whatever the peak of power, money, and influence is? Are you happy being a slave? You're positing that it can only be habit or pleasure. You're also positing that you hate that. So you must incredibly successful, right?

If the dentist is not there, the hygienist has no job. A lot of offices will have several hygienists to one dentist. Is the dentist 10x more valuable to the continued operation of the establishment? Yes.

This is "the secretary is just important as the boss" thinking. They're not. If the clerical work was as important as the main job, the boss would be doing it themselves or equals partner. The whole reason those specific tasks are offloaded is because they're doable by someone with less specialized skills, less training, and less experience.

Your post gets way to caught up in how it "feels" and misses reality completely. If every hygienist became a dentist, you'd have a bunch of dentists doing hygienist tasks, while being in competition with one another and under pressure to cut costs to compete (because the cost of dental care just skyrocketed). It would logically give rise to a specialized position to do the repetitive bulk tasks for less pay but also less investment. Which people would only accept if the effort/value proposition was amenable to them. It's not "slavery" or "humiliation," is basic-ass division of labor and a market working properly.

You're right about income taxes being bullshit though.

But back to your original question, why do you do what you do instead of having reached whatever the peak of power, money, and influence is? Are you happy being a slave?

If the dentist is not there, the hygienist has no job. A lot of offices will have several hygienists to one dentist. Is the dentist 10x more valuable to the continued operation of the establishment? Yes.

This is "the secretary is just important as the boss" thinking. They're not. If the clerical work was as important as the main job, the boss would be doing it themselves or equals partner. The whole reason those specific tasks are offloaded is because they're doable by someone with less specialized skills, less training, and less experience.

Your post gets way to caught up in how it "feels" and misses reality completely. If every hygienist became a dentist, you'd have a bunch of dentists doing hygienist tasks, while being in competition with one another and under pressure to cut costs to compete (because the cost of dental care just skyrocketed). It would logically give rise to a specialized position to do the repetitive bulk tasks for less pay but also less investment. Which people would only accept if the effort/value proposition was amenable to them. It's not "slavery" or "humiliation," is basic-ass division of labor and a market working properly.

You're right about income taxes being bullshit though.

If the dentist is not there, the hygienist has no job. A lot of offices will have several hygienists to one dentist. Is the dentist 10x more valuable to the continued operation of the establishment? Yes.

This is "the secretary is just important as the boss" thinking. They're not. If the clerical work was as important as the main job, the boss would be doing it themselves or equals partner. The whole reason those specific tasks are offloaded is because they're doable by someone with less specialized skills, less training, and less experience.

Your post gets way to caught up in how it "feels" and misses reality completely. If every hygienist became a dentist, you'd have a bunch of dentists doing hygienist tasks, while being in competition with one another and under pressure to cut costs to compete (because the cost of dental care just skyrocketed). It would logically give rise to a specialized position to do the repetitive bulk tasks for less pay but also less investment. Which people would only accept if the effort/value proposition was amenable to them. It's not "slavery" or "humiliation," is basic-ass division of labor and a market working properly.