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Originally Posted by t vago
Fair enough. When you design and sell something that is oh-so-much better than anything us lowly engineers can come up with, I'll be the first in line to buy it.
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No need for engineers to get feathers their ruffled and become collectively defensive, or to take any comments personally. No one but you called engineers "lowly". I respect good engineering. I have disdain for bad engineering. (And please let's not pretend that there are no "bad" engineers - or any bad lawyers, or bad doctors, or professionals of any other stripe in this world.)
Engineers, working for corporations, are paid to design a product. I can decide whether to buy it or not, although in modern times, more often than not, the track record of the product is unproven.
As with all occupations, if you don't do the job of designing it...
someone else will. Life may not be fair. But that's life.
BTW, I've always maintained that if a product comes on the market that will actually be useful to me and proven to be reliable, I will be the first in line to buy it.
