[zaidf]

1. Those who claim cleaning is not a "skilled job" should get off their keyboard, spend a day cleaning their moms house, and get back to me when they learn they are 3X slower than a pro and destroyed something with bleach-based spray.

x100. There is a lot more variance between two cleaners than say two Uber drivers.

[Lawtonfogle]

Due to the regulations needed to drive. Put someone with no experience driving behind a wheel and you'll quickly see how skill based driving is. Just, unlike good cleaning, we have a lot of training and experience with good driving.

Or if this is too extreme of an example, look at what happens when you give a driver who has only driven small cars a big truck pulling a loaded trailer. They'll definitely be slower than the driver's with skill.

[hkmurakami]

There's a great place to see this in action in SF: the Anchor Steam brewery in Potrero Hill.

The truck drivers turn around 18 wheelers in an impossibly tight space there and it's jawdropping to watch.

[baddox]

That comparison is confounded by the fact that most people, at least in the United States, get their driver's permit and license at a fairly young age, and don't have driving experience before that. A fair comparison would be between licensed and unlicensed drivers with the same amount of experience, but that's pretty hard to come by.

[danielweber]

On the 428 day old HN thread, it looks like lots of people had problems with lack of quality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7750433