Let us not get carried away with competition. The solution, in terms of the so-called liberal professions, is very straightforward. It is to allow, or require, people to publish fees, increase the supply of qualified personnel, reduce the artificial qualification barriers that are often introduced and establish objective criteria. The students I teach do four years of study and within six months of leaving the course can go out and be left in charge of a piece of equipment costing perhaps €5 million or €10 million. After six months they are regarded by tough, competitive, market focused US multinationals as capable of being left in charge of something like that, perhaps overnight.