This is how the knowledge economy works:

The professional classes glom on to areas of productivity, conquer them, and gatekeep them with credentials. This is always retroactive and has nothing to do with the original productivity. Decades of this has choked our institutions.

— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) March 4, 2021

This is happening with IT/infrastructure right now. Containerization, spiraling complexity, most cloud-related things, all of this is more about professionalization of my field rather than any real productivity improvements. Much of it is a sham to kick the “riffraff” out and make it all MBA-friendly.