the real skill
is not reading tarot cards, or knowing the principles of NLP, or even being able to sing karaoke.

No, the bit that is the job is that they have managed to get people to pay them for this bollocks. Anyone can get paid £5.93 for an hour of actual productive work like fruit picking or office cleaning or shelf stacking. To persuade people to pay you ten times that for an hour of bullshit... now that is a talent, and in a skewed way, I do believe that people who can make a living from their talents, should.

And while I agree with your point about them being charlatans preying on the emotionally or intellectually vulnerable, there is a bit of me that sometimes wishes I could have the moral disconnect required to part fools from their money so efficiently.
( Batsgirl, Thu 27 May 2010, 17:16, Reply)