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lawyer has a moat with license and degree, does not translate to software unless you work in very specific areas

also software contracts are generally not for 1 or 2 hours in total. if you NEED and get someone to consult on your code for 1 or 2 hours the rate would be astronomical too.

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law degree or CS degree no difference

maybe we need a license that will end all leetcode BS

you are wrong that lawyers only work a few hours on a case. they work hundreds of hours on reasonably sized cases if not thousands and the rate is the same

you dont need CS degree to be employed as software engineer or consult, you need law degree / license or what have you in US or anywhere else to practice law

never said lawyers work only 1 or 2 hours on a case, but still imho lawyers consulting for 1 hour is much more common than software developers consulting for 1 hour.

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