A big part of this is that specialist can be fake, often are, and nobody can tell. They just need to know slightly more about kubernetes or whatever specialty i

A big part of this is that specialist can be fake, often are, and nobody can tell. They just need to know slightly more about kubernetes or whatever specialty it is, than other people around them. I often come across “experts” that aren’t really experts in anything besides self-branding. Our university system is built on this. It’s also the reason why we haven’t made much progress in the last 50 years or so. Everybody is just enough of a specialist to demand a wage, not more. What’s the saying, “they promised flying cars, but gave us Facebook.”