In reading this article I was struck by the value judgements implied by the choices of terms within the context of contemporary American culture : Engineers ==

In reading this article I was struck by the value judgements implied by the choices of terms within the context of contemporary American culture : Engineers == self-centered == bad Managers == other-centered == good Another perspective might be that engineers are more interested in the value of the work they do whereas corporations are only concerned with the economic benefit they can obtain from that value. I'm not an economist but I'm convinced that value and price/cost/profit are two very different things. The first measures the actual benefit to a person or society of a given good while the later is determined by market dynamics/economic context. For example a laptop may only cost a few hundred dollars due to abundant supply but if I use that laptop to solve a problem worth millions then isn't the value of that laptop really much higher ?