When you're a professional, there are certain rigid processes you have to follow. A lot of it involves significant governance, and every professional has obligations of due diligence.

A lot of programmers became programmers or enjoy being programmers precisely because of the lack of the aforementioned things in their profession. Besides a lot of programmers are self taught or learn most of their skills by themselves.

A professional (doctor or engineer) would have to go through rigorous schooling and a grueling examination process to get their license. They can't become self taught doctors or engineers. Hell, most programmers would drop out of school if they got a good job at a growing start up when presented with a decent equity.

As a programmer I completely disagree with this post.

Until society wakes up and starts valuing ethics/morals over dollars this will remain nothing more than a dream. One of the core principles of the professional/craftsman was that things were to be done right even if it cost more and took longer. Sadly our grandparents seem to have been the last generation which widely held to that.

> A person who completes medical school is a doctor and, unless the license is revoked because of a serious ethical lapse, has valuable expertise. No manager or employer can take that credibility away for political reasons.

Anything at all can happen for political reasons. This very thing is happening to my mother (a doctor) right now.