On value

I have been listening to very interesting podcasts from EMI on our beloved civil engineering. The author and interviewees are American and that shows... the expected follow up of a PE career is to be a CEO. To start his business and to succeed or be miserable failing. The work and win or work and lose logic.

In Europe, at least in the South, with much smaller markets, the logic is now one of commodity at best, slavery mostly, and utter misery at its bottom. The value an engineer adds these days is apparently very small and rather worthless.

Does it have to be that way? Is there an inherent lack of sparkle among us, that renders us useless or are we facing as a class the same problem as mankind as a whole: overpopulation?

For the most part that can be the case. Too much offer for too small demand.