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If your broken sink is connected to a broken pipe under the street in front of your house on your property, and you find that you need to hire a Master Plumber with a team of juniors to fix it, you may find that the same price/years of experience equation exists.

The hierarchy of the trade union is what sustains this service model in the marketplace.

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"hire a Master Plumber with a team of juniors to fix it"

In that situation I would consider the "Master Plumber" akin to a lead developer or project manager. Which goes back to my main point - in software development you eventually need to either move to a management/leadership role or specialise in domain specific fields like security, computer graphics, systems architecture etc.

Wouldn't that be the responsibility of the water company which is civil engineering

Every house has a connection to the water main - what happens after that connection point is not their responsibility to repair.

But they will shut it off if you don’t fix it in, say, 10 days...

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