We can argue over our own personal intrepretation of words and all, that's fine.
I live in Texas, and when I first decided I wanted to have a career I thought I'd be a carpenter. Well as most people in Texas know we have relatively cheap housing because we have a large illegal immigrant workforce that does the work for extremely cheap. At the same time I got on with a professional cabinet builder who mostly did large custom homes. The job was great, we worked at our own pace and usually in the same place for long periods of time, and though we were not even a consideration for 95% of homes built because we offered a skill people found valuable we were able to make a better living then 95% of people who work on homes. The quality of our work and the uniqueness of our skills allowed us not to even have to worry about people offering similiar skills at a fraction of the price
Edit:And yes, I realize this isn't exactly the same thing, but it has enough similiarities not to whine completely apples and oranges