The Train of Times Waits for No One: Moving Forward Whether You Understand or Not

When you're hungry, there's only one problem—everything else isn't a problem. But once you're full, a million problems appear.

Steal someone else's rice bowl, and here's how they'll respond: volunteer for overtime, pull all-nighters, and deliberately screw up the work until it's so unappealing nobody wants it.

That's just how the workplace game is played. Race to work the longest hours, race to accept the lowest pay, race until you're operating at a loss. When you realize that after four years of med school you'll never recoup the cost of your education—and that all those overnight shifts in the hospital ward will wreck your health—you start questioning your choice. You劝退 (discourage) younger students from entering the field, and suddenly fewer people study medicine. Supply and demand begin to rebalance.