Henry Petroski claims that engineering ethics was founded on the principle that an engineer should not compete with another engineer on the basis of price.
A good philosophical ethics class is mostly uncomfortable...
> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.