Forgetting how to build is a nice euphemism for sabotaging your own civilization by moving its own manufacturing overseas to slave labor in the 70s because you

Forgetting how to build is a nice euphemism for sabotaging your own civilization by moving its own manufacturing overseas to slave labor in the 70s because you irrationally feared entitled hungry masses. What's that? Bootstraps or something? Victim-complex or some such nonsense. A pleasant notion & religion for the wealthy, I'm sure. Not a drop of truth in any of it, of course, since all activity in the 4th global industrial revolution requires mass cooperation through government or enterprise. No one is Edison because Edison had to make some wire light up, and we're tasked with designing things that take more hours than are available in a single human lifetime to create.