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by AngryData 394 days ago
Im more convinced we are heading that way every year. Certainly not anytime soon, but 100, 200, 1000 years from now? Seems plausible to me. Most people don't even know how their house electricity system is setup or works, or how their plumbing system works despite being incredibly simple, not to mention more advanced technologies. We are surrounded by internal combustion engines and yet less and less people actually understand them each day and it becomes more and more specialized knowledge. How many people know how a refrigerator works despite being incredibly simple technology and the basics necessary to understand it covered by atleast freshman highschool science class if not earlier?

We have built a disposable society so people most people never have to learn how anything works. They press a switch or button and it doesn't work? Throw it away and buy a new mass-produced model. And as time goes on we only need less and less people to understand a technology to mass produce it and sell it.
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fallingknife 394 days ago
Who cares what most people know about plumbing and electrical wiring? It's not most people's job to fix it when it breaks.
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codingdave 394 days ago
What a strange attitude. It certainly is not anyone else's job to maintain the home I own and live in. That is my job. If something breaks, I don't get to tell someone else that they have not done their job. I am responsible for fixing it. Yes, I can delegate a specific fix to a professional electrician or plumber, but that is a project-by-project choice.

If people want to approach life by hiring out every little thing, they can certainly do so, but those choices do not make my home maintenance someone else's job.

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tough 394 days ago
I guess his point is

what happens if there's no one left who knows about plumbing and electrical wiring?

but yeah, i dont think that's gonna happen like that

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fallingknife 394 days ago
Yeah, but he is extrapolating something going from common knowledge to specialist knowledge as a step towards it being something that nobody knows, and that's just not what it is at all.
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