Industrialization under no-competition doesn't lead to professionalization (if you associate more than just "being paid" with it). When there are no clear metri

Industrialization under no-competition doesn't lead to professionalization (if you associate more than just "being paid" with it). When there are no clear metrics of what's good or bad, you can live with that as an amateur and trust your common sense and taste. However, when you become professional, in the face of no clear metrics you have to invent some (or your manager will invent some just for you). These invented metrics are then gamed and gamed again, as it doesn't matter if you actually meet them or not, since they're meaningless to begin with. By "no-competition" I mean for the professionals/employees. There's so much demand for programmers and so much money allocated for them that the limited supply makes it trivial and common to be a professional today with skills on the level of a script-kiddie from the '90s.