I was thinking for some time about this text and there is one thing that's been bugging me. This is one sentiment that could be applied to most jobs out there:

I was thinking for some time about this text and there is one thing that's been bugging me. This is one sentiment that could be applied to most jobs out there: > We call ourselves web developers, software engineers, builders, entrepreneurs, innovators. We’re celebrated, we capture a lot of wealth and attention and talent. We’ve become a vortex on a par with Wall Street for precocious college grads. But we’re not making the self-driving car. We’re not making a smarter pill bottle. Most of what we’re doing, in fact, is putting boxes on a page. Users put words and pictures into one box; we store that stuff in a database; and then out it comes into another box. You can compare this to dentistry. It's a highly regarded profession and the wages are really good. But most dentists just pull a tooth out or drill it and put a filling. It's not rocket science, and when was that last time a dentist made a recipe for a new type of filling? And the profession itself didn't make really huge leaps in the last hundred years. My hour as a programmer in croatia is worth around 10 USD. A dentist gets 20 USD just to look at your teeth and charges 50 USD for a white filling which they can do in under an hour. One more thing. Lawyers, dentists and some other professions have associations that determine minimum prices "to assure high quality of work". Something to think about.