This feels to me like an idea that works in some other countries' healthcare systems (I think you can do this in Japan, for instance; the NHS system is definitely at the 'GP gatekeeper'… (View Post)

Rome clearly must have done quite a lot of its Empire-ing in Latin, because if you look at the Spanish, French, etc, languages they are descendants of Latin, not Greek. So the average provincial had … (View Post)

My employer's office doesn't have any tea trolley pushers, true, but on the other hand it does have baristas... (View Post)

Hah, me too, though perhaps a mere 27 years in my case. The pure and mechanics stuff was more interesting and seemed easier to me at the time as well as synergizing with the physics a-level, but stat… (View Post)

Pay has never been decided primarily by difficulty or importance of the work, regardless of how much many peoples' instinctive moral sense might desire it to be. My impression for train drivers … (View Post)