Originally Posted by Unregistered

These days with the amount of information and videos you find on internet, there is much less demand for getting professional advice. Sure you might need a professional to sign off on a prescription or a legal letter, accounting statement etc. But it's quick usually. hence the demand for such professionals has come down a lot. And they find it harder to charge for their work.
Meanwhile being a professional means you are subject to your regulatory body's rules. Many things you cannot do. Or you lose your licence. But non professionals can do stuff to masquerade as professional online eg giving "professional" advice without much consequence. Professional Regulatory bodies have no jurisdiction over non members. So you can say that being a non professional without those rules and regulations is actually better overall of business and sales. Go to fields with less rules and regulations.
In the past these professions were protected and had high income. These days that high income has stagnated since the 2000s. So it is getting less attractive. If you are an enterprising doctor and wants to setup a website or medical advice service online you get clamped down. Whereas if you are not you can write all kinds of articles true and untrue or half true get ad traffic, say some controversial stuff to drive traffic to site, have other side line businesses and not worry about losing the licence you had to spend so long trying to get.