For example, being a doctor is extremely difficult and also extremely crucial. If no one ever had to worry about themselves or their children being hungry or homeless, many people would still become doctors because they want to help others, but some folks who would choose to become doctors under capitalism might choose to do something else.
Education and training that's not commodified seems to more than cancel that out, going off how the doctors-per-capita ratio is much higher in socialist states. Attempts at complete wage flattening in the USSR were counter-productive in general, but their primary effect seems to have been indirectly encouraging corruption and semi-legal capitalist activity, not discouraging participation in education or difficult fields like medicine.
Even in Cuba, where the highest income comes from jobs related to the tourist industry, they have the highest number of doctors per capita out of any country.
Education and training that's not commodified seems to more than cancel that out, going off how the doctors-per-capita ratio is much higher in socialist states. Attempts at complete wage flattening in the USSR were counter-productive in general, but their primary effect seems to have been indirectly encouraging corruption and semi-legal capitalist activity, not discouraging participation in education or difficult fields like medicine.
Even in Cuba, where the highest income comes from jobs related to the tourist industry, they have the highest number of doctors per capita out of any country.