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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 6008197" data-attributes="member: 25619"><<Why aren't we all Navy SEALs and brain surgeons and Hollywood Stars?>>Supply and demand.-- The supply of people able to do those jobs well is small, and the demand for them in our economy (and money to pay for them) is limited.-- There's much more demand for people to drive garbage trucks or work at McDonald's than to be Hollywood Stars.  We NEED a lot more of the former than of the latter.  But there's also a LOT more people who CAN do a decent job of driving a garbage truck or working a cash register than of being a Hollywood Star, so supply and demand means those broader jobs don't pay as well.  If there were a shortage of people able/willing to do those jobs, their pay would go up.-- Note that ACTOR is not a high paying job and suffers from severe unemployment/underemployment -- most actors need a day job as a taxi driver or waiter or whatever -- because of the supply of people who would LIKE to be Actors is much higher than the demand for them.  ("Hollywood Star" is a very small niche within the Actor category.)As for me:Why I'm not a Navy SEAL.-- I prefer the Army to the Navy.  I think the Army is the real deal, and my dad, my uncle, my paternal grandfather, and my paternal great grandfather were all in the Army -- only my maternal grandfather (who died before I was born) and a cousin were in the Navy.-- I was never actually in the Armed Forces because I failed the physical - bad ankles.  The job I was going for capitalized on my higher stats (Int) and not my lower ones (Dex and Str).Why I'm not a brain surgeon.-- Biology doesn't interest me.-- I'm squeamish.-- I was sickly as a kid.  Spent too much time around hospitals.  Don't want anything to do with that as an adult.Why I'm not a Hollywood Star.-- I tried acting.  It makes me nervous and I'm not great at it.-- My charisma is average at best.I imagine my PC's have similar stories on why they choose one Class and not another.</blockquote>

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