Well, that's quite a wall of text. If you want to make it more persuasive, you might want to break it up into linked pieces: professions and professionali

Well, that's quite a wall of text. If you want to make it more persuasive, you might want to break it up into linked pieces: professions and professionalism corporations ethics competence exams Re the fishing boat operator example, you might want to use a "factory worker" who does piecework, and does not lease a boat, pay for fuel, and insurance, hold a fishing or boat operator's license, etc. Where you use terms, and then defend them, try to find terms that do not need defending: > commodity labor, and I use that term non-pejoratively. perhaps "piecework" or "fungible product labor" > liberal service ... Professional service... I would delete that whole sentence, and replace it with "Professional work is a service..." > Some have to fucking use vacation days to attend conferences! uh, "professional" language? > In typical industrial work, the "Bozo Bit" starts out in the "On" > position, meaning that a typical worker is assumed to be stupid, > treacherous, and useless. Since barriers to entry are low, the only thing > that defines a worker is wanting money, and being willing to do unpleasant > tasks in order to get it. There's no respect for the average, individual > member in such an industry; the default assumption is incompetence, > ethical depravity, and childlike stupidity. Wow. Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel! Instead of "stupid," how about: "a typical newly-hired worker is assumed to be ignorant of the workplace and the work at hand, and thus potentially dangerous to themselves and others." Incompetence and uselessness in an entry-level worker suggest a need for training rather than intrinsic bozoness. I think that suggesting treachery and ethical depravity is a bit of a reach, even in this context. [edits: formatting]