On: $700/hr for legal advice vs. $100/hr for a top software engineer – why?

[gnosis]

"legal work is more likely to be boring, so you have to pay people more to do it"

Sweeping floors and cleaning toilets is also pretty boring, but I don't see anyone paying janitors more because of it.

[swampthing → gnosis]

if you needed smart janitors, you would.