Someone above mentioned it, but basically, for low skill/manual labor, there is a level at which you'll say "I can do it myself", or "I can hire some intern or

Someone above mentioned it, but basically, for low skill/manual labor, there is a level at which you'll say "I can do it myself", or "I can hire some intern or random kid to do this". And that's the hard cap ofr those jobs. While you can represent yourself in court, it's probably a bad idea (and you can't legally do it for someone else, so you HAVE to cough up t he $$$). On the other hand, I personally have a very high appreciation for high quality manual labor (eg: carpentry) and I'm always looking for the best money can buy in those areas....and it's impossibly hard. Since no one else seem to value it, no one does it. Everyone's optimizing for cost. I had a very difficult carpentry job that needed to be done recently, and I went hunting for the best of the best, offering well over what a lawyer or software engineer would make. Crickets. It took over a year to find someone. Those people no longer exist since there's no market for it.