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See also: "Forces of Production" by David F Noble, for an account of how specialized skills and self-reliance were usurped my management in a slow but deliberate war of many losers between the early 20th century and the late 1970s. He takes particular aim at the role numeric control played in abstracting the skills of machinists into CAD-CAM. Just to say that I think management usurped self-reliance in many fields. And here we are.