Stays at periscope depth. We have our standards…
Every organisation has secrets, and the smaller the group involved, the bigger they are. Specialist, professional, and arcane societies have the most of these and guard them with the greatest jealousy. Do not think to ask a surgeon how to stitch an artery to an elbow, for he will not tell you.
This may be seen as a way to protect standards but is often really to protect trade income or mysterious exclusivity. If people cannot have aristocracy through birth and force, they will have it based upon ritual and secrecy. The effect of suppressing others is just the same.
Note that levelling is very often done in civil construction, and can be done by building up or tearing down. The latter is far more common than the former, though it is debatable which is more costly in the end. What you end up with can be low or high. The same thing applies to many societies, professions, and trades.
It happened to the profession I trained in, eventually converting it back to the trade it started out as, with an overlay of corporate business that enriches no-one save business owners and organisational managers. I am heartily glad to be retired from it.
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