[OFFTOPIC] Medical practitioners and building trade people vs. software developers (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)

[Omer Zak]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 15:04 +0200, Tom Balazs wrote:
> 2. The customer is often not able to understand the product or service
> he is buying. That means they can't really understand whether or not a
> job was done well. This is true in many fields.

I am curious to know how do people in the building trades and in the
medical area manage to attract high payment in exchange for excellence.
How do they differ from software developers, who are often forced to
race to the bottom?

In those areas, there is the element of client not being fully cognizant
of the product or service he is buying (alebit this element is not as
pronounced in the building trades).

--- Omer


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