An engineer’s role is to mitigate risks in complex systems. Activities like flying through the sky, transplanting organs, and fiddling with energy are very risky indeed. The primary output of an engineer is the removal of these risks. It’s a straightforward concept: Engineers remove risk from complex systems.
A firefighter is worth a million dollars per hour safeguarding life and property – when there is a fire. The value of the firefighter is easily measured by severity of the fire. A fire protection engineer can design thousands of buildings that will never burn. Unfortunately, in the absence of a fire, there is no way to measure the true economic value of the engineer?
Reflecting on the complex global challenges that civilization faces: Are we fighting fires or solving fires?
Unless we accurately assess the economic value of engineers and incorporate it into our monetary system, it will always be more profitable to allow the world to burn.
Engineers remove risk from complex systems – this idea is easy to understand and the solution is actually quite simple – we have the technology and analysis tools to accomplish this with relative ease.
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