- The professions are designed to be closed shops (they are
as bad as unions) that can only be joined if one comes
from the right background. One has to have been to
university and to have obtained a degree to be eligible
to join them.
- All the professions believe they are elites who should be
paid loads of money. Less able people must be prevented
from taking a share of the cake and adversely affecting
the professionals' earning power, they must be kept out,
they can scratch around for what they can find in the
dirt.
- The professions seek to humiliate and therefore
discourage less able aspirants from attempting to become
members.
- Secondary school children should be able to get some sort
of membership of the professions so that they can find
out what they are all about and make career decisions.
- Professions are very similar to unions, their main
preoccupation is to raise the status and income of their
members with little regard to whether that is justified.
- The professions try to pull the wool over outsider's eyes.
They try to dupe the rest of us into believing that their
members do much more difficult work than is actually the
case, in order to justify excessive salaries. They do
this principally by insisting that their members undergo
training and education that is unnecessary and not cost
effective. They must be supervised much more closely to
stop this fraudulent waste.
- The professions are sordid, corrupt clubs whose members
seek to improve their own position at everybody else's
expense. They work with the education system to ensure as
far as possible that people from the "wrong"
background are excluded. They are another tool by which
those who consider themselves to be superior maintain
their advantage. Aspiring members have to jump through
the hoops the professions erect to try to impede and
exclude them.
- They mustn't just serve the top practitioners of a
profession, they must serve all levels and ensure that
there is always a path to the top from any other level
for anybody of any age with sufficient ability to take it.
- It must be ensured that their activities are always in
the best interests of the population at large, ie. they
must be regulated.
- The principal function of the professions is to help
their members to keep abreast of developments in their
field and to ensure there are avenues via which all
members can progress from the bottom to the top. They
should probably provide alternative routes to those
provided by universities. Their second most important
function is to ensure that their members are not
exploited by employers. They should probably also help
their members to find suitable employment.