We don't license software engineers, who essentially create the foundation of modern society. Just today, there was a news story about Boeing employing offshor

We don't license software engineers, who essentially create the foundation of modern society. Just today, there was a news story about Boeing employing offshore contractors at $9/hr to write software for 737 MAX. Nearly all large software companies utilize whiteboard coding quizz as a way to measure the quality of their candidates. Imagine what would happen when the modern crop of javascript developers start working on avionics? I don't know what's worse - an incompetent politician or an incompetent software developer. Think heartbleed, microsoft windows updating in the middle of surgery, Mars mission crashing because someone mixed imperial and metric units... We may never be able to hold them liable (because people who write the laws are also corrupt and incompetent), and we will never be able to weed out incompetence in our technical infrastructure (because, frankly, most of us [me included] are lazy, incompetent, greedy, and selfish.