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Try having the same argument with your plumber, electrician or dentist. You're there because you are reliant on their expertise and can't just do it yourself.

• cgriswald 2y ago
  That’s funny because I argued with my plumber. He wanted to do a long term solution to a problem I have. It was a good solution. I said I didn’t want to do it because it was quite a bit less expensive for me to just deal with the acute issues when they arise over the rest of my lifetime. I’m usually paying experts to advise me so I can make my own decisions and then enact those decisions. Occasionally, I will have an opinion on methods. I’m not reliant individually on any expert, even if I am ultimately reliant upon their profession. And I hire people for work I can do all the time. Experts are often wrong. They misunderstand requirements. They don’t fully understand the system they are modifying. They can be lazy. They can consider a job or client as less important than other jobs or clients. They can lie. They can have incentives that don’t work for the client. They can be terrible at their work. Even when experts are good and honest, they can make decisions that don’t work for their clients. My divorce lawyer was amazing when he was on the warpath, but I told him I didn’t want to take that approach generally because I knew my ex’s back would go up and we’d both pay a lot more in legal fees to achieve the same results. He was good at his job and he wasn’t wrong, but that particular method didn’t work for me.