[kyleplum]

You could replace "money" with any specific area of human expertise. I don't need to fully understand how my body works because my doctor does. I don't need to fully understand how my car works because my mechanic does. I don't need to know how to build my home because my contractors know.

The information is available to those who are interested or want to further that area of human expertise, but the collective knowledge of humanity is too great for all of us to know everything. That's why we pay (mostly) regulated experts to handle these things for us.

[dist1ll]

(1) Knowing how to use crypto safely is hardly "expertise". It's something that can be learned quite quickly from experts.

(2) Having a general idea of many areas in life is important for a functioning society and becoming a healthy human being.

I really dislike this narrative that we must not think for ourselves. Always delegate. Always leave it to the experts. I see the same anti-intellectual sentiment in programming communities.

- Don't write assembly, compilers are smarter than you.

- Don't think about building your own networking stack. It's too complicated.

- Don't write your own OS. Do you think you can outperform Linux? Lol