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> Software engineering must be one of the few professions where individuals freely share their energy and expertise with others.

I would drop the "software" and just keep the engineering.

I also think it's important that it's virtually free to practice software engineering. All you need is a computer and your spare time.

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A computer, bandwidth, and spare time are all large expenses to large chunks of the population.

Try learning Electronics and you will see what I mean.

First you need a shit load of equipment: Soldering station, Scope, Multimeter, Power-supply, Function generator, and so on...

Then building something and testing it costs money. PCB manufacturing is pretty expensive.

Finally debugging and crashes are not free like the software. If you made a wrong connection, then the PCB goes to trash. If you screwed up the Voltage, probably your components will blow up and go to trash too.

And all that are on top of the computer and bandwidth.

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