Shortage of Dentists: Washington Post Can't Even Imagine Immigrants

Dentists in the United States earn on average a bit more than $200,000 a year. This is roughly twice the average in other wealthy countries like Canada and Germany, although still less than the $250,000 average for doctors. Their pay is more than 13 times what a minimum wage worker would take home in a year.

The conventional story for this sort of inequality is that dentists have highly valued skills in today's economy, whereas most minimum wage workers don't. As an alternative, let me sugges...