I don't know how things are back home, but here in the US "getting into web dev" is something people do mostly as a way to increase their earnings. Yes, there a

I don't know how things are back home, but here in the US "getting into web dev" is something people do mostly as a way to increase their earnings. Yes, there are some gems in the crowd, but the base case, so to speak, is someone who simply wants to make more money. These are the people who want to make the jump from $25k/year to $75k/year and stay there, rather than become masters of a craft. Any learning for them is incidental to the economic process, and such worker bees - productive as they may be - don't actually improve the state of our industry. Good software is exactly economically viable, but it takes upfront investment. Unfortunately, businesses don't like to make that upfront investment in something they don't - yet! - understand. Think of a car: a young person might treat their first car like crap assuming that it would simply run forever like magic. This attitude does a quick 180 the day the car's tranny drops out. I'm thinking that not enough software "transmissions" have quit in order to instill these lessons within the MBA-s of the world.