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This is a ridiculous take. Veterinary medicine is not some capitalist utopia. Most vets are miserable and, unlike doctors, most of them don't even make any money for their suffering.

First of all, a substantial portion of the job is putting animals down, and I'm not talking about 20-year-old dogs with so many health issues that it's a mercy. A portion of the animals are in this case, of course; but a lot of the time, these are animals who'd be fine with proper treatment, and the issue is of owners who either don't care (yuppie shits who can afford the treatment, but who bought the pet for the kids, who are now in college, and see the pet as "just an animal") or who can't afford treatment at all. The idea that veterinary medicine is some capitalist utopia just because the prices are more reasonable (for now) is absurd... because the fact is that we live in what free-market capitalism has reduced (due to runaway wage collapse) to a third-world country, and so most people can't even afford basic services for beloved pets, even at the relatively low service prices of a few hundred dollars instead of a few thousand, because so many Americans don't even have that.

Veterinarians have an astronomically high suicide rate. They are right in the firing line of this shitfucked economic system that should have been overthrown forty years ago when it stopped functioning for the people who do the actual work.