And they enjoy what Milton Friedman called socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor: their prestige is guaranteed by the state, whose grandest politicians yearn to enjoy corporate super-wealth in retirement.
Negativity expressed towards psychiatry among friends, family, the public and other medical specialists, psychiatry's poor social prestige and lower earning potential found in this, and other studies [ 14, 20, 46, 47] may explain why some students do not regard psychiatry favorably as a potential career.
However, most graduate public health programs in South Asia were offered by medical schools and did not have much effect on public health because of 'neglect, assignment of lowest priority, low prestige, poor quality of staff and inadequate facilities' [ 21, 22].
Critics worry that the hospital corporation, whose mission is to serve the city's poor, is conferring prestige on a foreign school whose curriculum, they say, is more vocational than research-based and often caters to affluent students who could not get into schools in the United States.
There's also the low prestige, poor salary, and difficult working conditions attached to the profession.
It has also provided a means of social advancement, where men from poor families can earn prestige and join the upper middle class.
The older men wave cash and cellphones, a sign of prestige in poor communities, and they talk about lives far more glamorous than the ones the girls are living.
But prestige is a poor argument for change: in the real world, it may not matter that some commissioners are not recognised by their own Eurocrats.
"The real concern is that the U.S. is using its international power and prestige to force poor countries to enforce our intellectual property standards, and the result of that is that access to medicine is denied and people are dying," said Joseph Stiglitz.
The touring team's results were poor, which resulted in a loss of prestige for the Test matches.
