that’s impossible, since it requires some degree of expertise, which is literally inconceivable for these people. in their view, anyone positioning themselves as having a rare (or sometimes just slightly uncommon) skill is actively trying to defraud you by making you pay them to do something that would be easy for you to do yourself. i think this evolved out of a devaluing of “low skill” jobs. eventually it was used as a criticism of Pollock-style modern art, you know, the “i could paint that” thing. the fact that it has become a general criticism of any professional category is deeply funny to me.
that’s impossible, since it requires some degree of expertise, which is literally inconceivable for these people. in their view, anyone positioning themselves as having a rare (or sometimes just slightly uncommon) skill is actively trying to defraud you by making you pay them to do something that would be easy for you to do yourself. i think this evolved out of a devaluing of “low skill” jobs. eventually it was used as a criticism of Pollock-style modern art, you know, the “i could paint that” thing. the fact that it has become a general criticism of any professional category is deeply funny to me.