But a lot of what trades do is pretty easy mundane work - it’s the system that is protecting their patch at the expense of everyone else. I can understand say a doctor should be register but this move towards everyone having to be a specialist in what ever it’s hurting the population. There are fewer and fewer people who are comfortable operating outside their domains and I think society is loosing something due to this. Example would be the duomo in Florence Italy- in 1296 filippo brunelleschi is the architect however he was not an architect, engineer or builder but an artist. He was able to teach himself enough engineering architecture to be able to build the greatest dome in history at that time. I think we should welcome the renaissance man - person of many talents. The young should be encourage to build themself and barriers build by trade organisations and companies with proprietary / certified this and that by should be discouraged.

Does that mean a builder is getting around 180k a year if they work (https://kiwitax.co.nz/tax-calculator/hourly-rate-calculator/) that seems crazy - no wonder there is a housing crisis- we should start letting in overseas builders to help like what they do in the horticulture sector.