Medicine has many more barriers to entry: schooling, debt, etc.<p>I&#x27;m a white high school dropout, but I got a developer position at age 27 after rushing through a CS degree later in live which took about ~3 years.  I work 40 hours a week and get a very livable $100k+ salary plus stock and benefits with negligible student debt all things considered (~$30k).<p>My point being, in a vacuum, getting on track to making a good wage as a developer has a lot fewer barriers with the lack of medical school and debt.  Not to mention the free time I have outside of work and regular hours.  Salary isn&#x27;t everything.<p>I cannot speak for people of color and their experience who want to go through the same process as me.  There are all kinds of barriers they experience that I don&#x27;t.  Neil DeGrasse Tyson (I know, I know...) had a good answer to the silly question &quot;What&#x27;s with chicks in science?&quot;, and the cultural &#x2F; systemic barriers he had to go through to reach that point in life [1].<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=z7ihNLEDiuM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=z7ihNLEDiuM</a>