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"Tech bro" and "finance bro" are well-known archetypes. That we don't have equivalents for other high-profile, high-status, high-paying fields like "law bro" or "med bro" probably says something, but what exactly?
It's interesting that certain professions are seen as intrinsically high-status. Doctors are presumptively taken to be morally upstanding individuals, to the point that "he's a doctor, but he treats everyone like shit" is seen as such a surprising twist it can power an entire TV series for eight seasons. More darkly, I wonder if this presupposition might be the root of the Lucy Letby truther movement: perhaps these people just cannot believe that a trained nurse could be this spectacularly vicious. I was once speaking to a former veterinarian who complained that, whenever she reads a novel in which a character is a veterinarian, it's always used a shorthand for that character being of good moral character: "aww, look at him, he cares about teh animals!!" But in her experience, most vets are dickheads.
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