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What is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?

I used to work as a contractor for an environmental remediation firm. All the waterways that you joke about not swimming in are actually full of some awful carcinogen. Old industrial plants dumped awful chemicals for years and years. Some of these issues are being slowly addressed, but regulation is always well behind the science. But often, if the liability is significant enough, companies will spend millions of dollars a year to kick the can down the road doing studies and monitoring so that they can avoid what would be hundreds of millions to actually remediate the problem.

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Except some skills are much harder to learn and some skills are much more valuable to society than others. I would argue the hard to learn, more valuable to society ones are "better". I don't think the people performing them are better or worse, but it's fair to elevate and celebrate certain jobs over others.

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My man, this is not an argument for or against capitalism.

If two skills are of relatively close societal value, and one is harder to do, learn and master, that craft deserves more respect.

This is not a reflection of any individual.