Employed /sci/ guys, what is your opinion on the official profession titles such as engineer, doctor, and so on being phased into management roles with what previously comprised part of the job description now being accomplished by "technicians"?
I am poor at phrasing this as ESL. I mean, the actual engineering being done by technicians and unlicensed new hired, with the engineer signing the paperwork just doing what a consultant used to do. In the future, will we see surgery being completed by surgery technicians, and the surgeon stands at the back and signs papers good to go?

What if in the future, the "mathematician" is just the employer who pays wages, and the analysis and cmputation is done by a new tech buzzword that still requires graduate study, and mathematician just has an MBA?
I'm getting at, I am scared of this "title creep" when I think oh man, a hundred years ago no one would question i am a mathematician, and today I will be scoffed at unless I have PhD minimum.