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> Most of it exists as arse-covering material anyway.

I think bean counter types throughout the business world truly believe there must be some secret fairy dust you can use to transform mid/low competency people into high competency people, and dysfunctional teams into highly functional teams. It's about wages. It's essentially a delusion that you can take cheap, socially lower status people and substitute for more expensive people as long as you have the right fairy dust.

The mentality works to a degree for certain disciplines. It works with McDonalds employees. You can apply management theory and systems to an infantry brigade and get good results from lower grade enlisted men.

The model simply does not map over to the "creative" professions and crafts. But managerial types are often averse to the idea that software engineering is a proper profession on par with their own, not commodity, and must command high pay. They prefer to keep seeking the right fairy dust.

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I downvoted you for this bit

>>socially lower status people