Money isn't everything, there's a status component related to those professions (especially if you are coming from poorer background) and a lot of people like the idea of being a doctor or a lawyer. TBH you have to be a certain kind of person to enjoy sitting in front of a screen 8H a day to work on stuff most people would find meaningless (eg. getting paid to optimize ad revenue, speed up PHP execution to save data center energy usage...).
Likewise being a plumber isn't that respectable either.
And let's not even get into the dating/marriage aspect of it.
Likewise being a plumber isn't that respectable either.
And let's not even get into the dating/marriage aspect of it.