ple practising in fields where we ourselves are experts. Standards in comme rce are too often terrible.
About half the practitioners in any field are below average. Anybody lookin g at other practitioners tends to concentrate on the stuff they've done in the particular sub-field where the inspecting practitioner is particularly expert. The fact that the problem that needed to be solved wasn't in that particular sub-field and consequently didn't need - and didn't get - a stat e-of-the-art solution tends to be less interesting and less obvious.
Nothing in UK culture values stupidity. Their tendency to make class-based judgements does put a lot of upper-class twits into jobs that they aren't a ll that good at, and bars competent people who have detectably lower-class accents or habits from top jobs. They don't actually value stupidity, but t hey don't put enough weight on competence when selecting people for particu lar jobs, and concentrate too much on having somebody who looks a lot like the last person who did the job.
Virginia Valian talks about why women are slow to get promoted to top jobs in the US, but much the same mechanisms block non-upper-class people from t op jobs in the UK.
nearly always just brainless bull and near zero understanding of the produc ts being sold.
Retail sales isn't a particularly well-paid job, nor rewarding in any other way.
Competent people sometimes do it for a while, until something better comes along, but they don't sell much more than their less competent colleagues, and there's no pressure to pay them enough to keep them in the job.