Instead of: "I took my $500k/year tech salary which I formerly spent on Teslas and cardboard apartments and just hired a competent electrician or other tradesman to pull cable to every room."
I don't really understand people who pay others to do every little thing they need done around the house, but I suppose they have different values than I so live and let live...
Except the whole point of his post was that he didn't know how to do it competently, there's no way he wants to enter the crawlspace, so has resorted to wacky workarounds.
So, no, it clearly isn't within the skill (or desire) of anyone, but many would rather resort to hackery and hubris rather than pay someone to do it correctly.
I'll counter that and say there's probably minimum wage coders in India who write equal or better code than you at 1/10th of the pay, certainly possible as they have two functioning hands.
Worth it, though, and would do it again.
I realized that it is cheaper for me to pay someone do some things than doing them myself. Instead, I can either work or do something fun or more interesting.
I think that's the key point really. For someone with even a mild interest in this stuff, the task of running ethernet cables is very approachable and feasible. At that point the time spent on it is a plus instead of a minus, and paying someone else is no longer competitive.
A place I used to live had structured cabling built in and half of it was CCA. I could tell immediately when I cut the cable to terminate it just by seeing the silver ends. It even said CCA on the casing so wasn't even fake.
Electricians are definitely better than you at running cable and knowing where to cut the holes. But make sure you choose the cable and terminate it yourself.
And before anyone adds on with 'lol pay more', they try. The people just aren't there.
Ergo, if they can, tradespeople take commercial jobs.
Which leaves residential tradesperson as something of a lemon market. (And I wouldn't want to put up with one-off job, haggling about payment, if I had commercial options)
Just finding a contractor or business owner able to think clearly is reaching near impossibility.
Like on even the most basic things. It’s quite concerning.
The breakdown of the apprentice model ~20 years ago and now-due generational consequences of that change seems more to blame.
Community expertise evaporated with retirement of folks who have been doing it 30+ years.
And without anyone receiving it... many of the folks out there are "let me look up plans at Home Depot before doing the job" types.
This fall is part of a steady escalation.
It appears to be heavily correlated with the insane propaganda floating around too.
You'd have to pay me that kind of money (amortized) to deal with vetting/hiring/managing/scheduling/QC'ing someone else and their work.