They told us how & why. It’s a direct penalty on American workers for the higher wages they demanded over the course of the 20th century.

Not sure it’s really that unexamined. I’m starting to think many view it as a feature rather than a flaw.

I’m not even sure they’d nominate a doctor.

A rabbi once explained it to me as: Judaism prefers that you believe in G-d but only requires that you believe in not more than one god.