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Re:Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable by patio11 on Thursday February 03, 2011 @03:34AM (#2174128)
Total agreement. There is no rule, law, or moral stricture against earning money efficiently. (Some people seem to accept that a lawyer can bill $4,000 in a day of work but an engineer who does the same thing must be cheating somehow. I've never understood this.)
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Re:Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable by noonespecial on Thursday February 03, 2011 @05:22AM (#2174285)
A great many people also think that what the lawyer does is exploitative. It has just become an accepted social fiction that law is an exploitative profession and its to be expected of them.

"Well sure lawyers do it, but engineers?! Come on, they're supposed to be the good guys!"

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