U do know you sound silly ?

Ops pay is not the best for sure.
But it's competitive
Cannot fight what public pays for Ortho, eye etc but given how hard
it is to enter those compared to FM, par for the value.

The unfortunate fact is that FM tends to draw less motivated pple who are looking for a backup,
Who try for FM after few unsuccessful tries at other more competitive speciality
Motivated residents tend to do very well ( and we are not taking about taking on leadership
positions) much like how they do well in other specialities

While FM and GP has considerable overlap
They are not the same
The GP who never trained cannot handle complex chronic like us for example or engage in appropriate clinical reasoning to best help our patients ( GP is refer to a&e or go polyclinic for further management
There are good solid gp but my experience is not many of them
M.med FM also got lousy ones but by and large generally ok.

Comparing ops/Ch salary to private GP is pointless but unfortunately a never ending comparison
It's like teachers in public and teacher who turn to tuition.
If tuition teaching really pays more, why still so many teachers with moe?
Sometimes it's not the pay but the work, the working hours, the working environment