Last year, I bought a Zeiss with tripod for $600.00.
I don't expect surveyors to understand my engineering process which created a job for them, any more than I expect some factory workers to understand the engineering processes which created the projects they are assembling.
Welllll hoss, you haven't exactly been sharing the bounty of created jobs with yours truly, so stuff the arrogant hubris.
Too often egocentric ass engineers like yourself lose sight of the addition a good surveyor can give to a project, and in true elitist fashion, the minute one questions your work (even in this virtual hell hole), and attempts to save you a little time and scratch (GIS, Lidar, software) you turn as nasty as an ape that fell out of the ugly tree.
If you are going to continue to foster dissent here, I would prefer you not post in threads that you start. Just lay the groundwork for us to discuss how ludicrous your claims are, and move along.
