The power of the expert is to limit public access to knowledge and scare amateurs of, thus raising his value by means of artificial scarcity. And that is how i

The power of the expert is to limit public access to knowledge and scare amateurs of, thus raising his value by means of artificial scarcity. And that is how it worked in the past. Todays problem is, that to become a expert, one has to sacrifice years of life, just to gather all knowledge necessary to understand and contribute to a field. Thus barriers are not only no longer needed, the sheer mass of knowledge works as a paywall against amateurs. This ocassionally lowers, when a completely new field is discovered, but in general this principle holds. To allow amateurs to contribute something usefull again, they would have to study in there spare time, spend a lot of time on the subject - in there free time and then they- will become experts without titles. Thank you for those, internet.