Are Doctors or Musicians More Beneficial to Society?

In reality, all jobs contribute something!

If you were on a sinking boat and had to get rid of one passenger to survive, would you get rid of a doctor or a musician?

OK, we don’t need to be so dark. The point is to examine the difference between a doctor and a musician or, in other words, a problem solver and an entertainer.

A less intense scenario compared to the one above would be asking if the world would be better with only doctors or only musicians. Most would probably say only doctors because they have a more direct contribution to society.

Fortunately, the above scenario is unrealistic, and we will likely always have both doctors and musicians. They contribute to society in their own ways.

A world with doctors and no musicians may be healthy but dull. A world with musicians and no doctors may be entertaining but brimming with the disease. When the two coexist, we get the best of the best: we rock and roll all night without dying from a mere fever!

Let’s assume music has no therapeutic value and can only be fun, emotional, scary, and so on. It still fills a void that medicine can’t, and that’s why it should be celebrated.

Imagine if the members of Iron Maiden became doctors instead of musicians just to contribute to society more directly. Not only would we lose their gorgeous music, but we would also likely end up with doctors who don’t perform as well as doctors with sheer passion.

That is a crucial point. We need fewer mediocre practitioners of their crafts and more people who do what they do because it actually resonates with them.

Being a doctor is not that easy, so it would be unwise to add a whole layer of difficulty by pressuring someone not into medicine to plunge into it headfirst.

We were all brought into this life unwillingly, and we are not obliged to contribute to it in a certain way. The least we can do is not burden the world with another unpassionate soul, so whether or not we want to contribute to the world through medicine or music, we are making a positive change.

If it’s not for the construction worker, who else would build civilization? If you’re a cashier at the local supermarket, while your outreach is limited to that supermarket, you still make a change.

Whoever provided that cashier job also made a change by providing this opportunity you can use as a stepping stone towards your dream career.

Let us embrace the fact that we’re all contributing to society in our own way, no matter how small or big, as the culmination of our circumstances that help elevate us to the maximum potential we can deliver in our field of specialty.

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