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Perhaps those barriers are higher than they should be but for something this critical it's a good thing there's process, training, and regulation. Safety and re
by mostlysimilar 4y ago
Perhaps those barriers are higher than they should be but for something this critical it's a good thing there's process, training, and regulation. Safety and reliability are more important than speed.
Software engineering could probably use a few barriers. There's some exceedingly shitty software out there getting pumped out by people who hop in to make quick money and get hired by companies who don't care and just want to pay people less.
The world needs to catch up to how critical software is and course correct away from it becoming a race to the bottom.
- jacobsenscott 4y agoThe barriers have nothing to do with safety - they are a moat designed to keep competition out and wages high. The moat worked a generation or two ago - you could make a good middle class living as a tradesperson. It doesn't work anymore, now we just have a shortage of tradespeople and nobody wants to jump through the hoops when there are easier ways to make higher wages.
- briHass 4y agoAs always, the truth is somewhere in the middle. The NEC is fairly complex, and there are lots of gotchas and techniques that you really only learn by doing it for some time alongside someone experienced that can guide you. If it was your house, would you want the equivalent of a bootcamp electrician mucking around with minimal oversight? Sure, there are inspectors, but they can't be expected to catch 100% of the issues, and most people wouldn't want the job to take 3 times as long as the junior electrician is forced to redo huge amounts of work. That said, there should be stricter requirements for offering apprenticeships. If the law requires it to work, anyone that has achieved that status should be mandated to take on X apprentices over their career.