We spend hours, days into developing a small component of a complex web app but don’t appreciate a craftsman spending hours to fix our radiator. How weird is that?

Let’s put ourselves into perspective more often and appreciate other people’s work.

Why do we as people tend to overrate our own work while not appreciating other peoples’ work? Why would web development be better work and better paid than someone working on fixing our facilities or heating installation? This can be transferred to a couple of other jobs as well: Why should a banker be valued more than a nurse in a hospital that saves people’s lives?

Thinking about this relatively often lately, I feel lucky and privileged earning enough money a year to live a very good life by just coding websites and web-applications. And I wonder what would change if we paid craftspeople equally as “business people”, developers, CEOs. I think it’d be an interesting try. Again, let’s put ourselves into perspective when our initial thought is to save money when hiring a craftsperson.