> I live in an environment where I find it appalling that I need to pay $150 to wait an hour to see the doctor who studies me for thirty seconds and gives me a

> I live in an environment where I find it appalling that I need to pay $150 to wait an hour to see the doctor who studies me for thirty seconds and gives me a high-price prescription for a double dose of what I can get over the counter. It's not so much "trust" as it is "should it seriously cost this much?" This is a rather specious argument. If one of the many freelancers on this board were called in to consult on a seemingly intricate technical issue, and they end up just changing a few characters in the source (change a '=' to '==' or correct a typo, for instance) which fixes the problem, would the client be justified in thinking "He changed only 2-3 bytes in the source! Should it seriously cost this much?" on being charged the full engagement rate? It is a classic case of "knowing where to tap". [1] [1] http://p4b.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/knowing-where-to-tap.html http://p4b.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/knowing-where-to-tap.html