Charge-out rate: Difference between revisions

===“The end of the charge-out rate is nigh”===

Around the [[LinkedIn|marketplace of ideas]], you will see the occasional sandwich board-donning lunatic preaching through wild hair and crazed eyes, that the end of this tyrannical regime is nigh.  

“''Death to the billable hour!''” they shriek, to whatever patient, spittle-flecked audience they can find. This argument, proceeding as it does from the purest precepts of cold logic is, on its own terms, unimpeachable and therefore, in the real world, utterly hopeless.  For no matter how much “everyone” hates them — and not everyone hates them: everyone ''with an opinion on [[LinkedIn]]'' hates them, and that’s different — and no matter how compelling the logic against them, ''charge-out rates are a brute fact of life''. They have survived, and flourished, until now. As brute facts tend to, they have proven adept at resisting the cold hypothetical theorising of [[Modernism|modernisers]] and [[Thought leader|thought leaders]].