Often things are said to the effect of it being weird that we're capable of spaceflight, but infrastructure is too hard and expensive. The lack of fluidity in t

Often things are said to the effect of it being weird that we're capable of spaceflight, but infrastructure is too hard and expensive. The lack of fluidity in the labor market, i.e. pinning people to a field or worse, a company, for a lifetime creates a lot of that inefficiency, I think. I know the idea is that specialization is good for everyone, and people doing certain kinds of work should be good at it, but I think allowing more diversity in the types of work people do, more intermingling, and more fluidity are realistic goals with a lot of advantages. We already have a big problem in matching qualified people with jobs efficiently. If we get substantially better at that, we can do it more rapidly, and allocate resources much more intelligently, since demands change in every profession as things develop. I would actively welcome breaks in my knowledge work to do the many types of "dumb labor" I can do when it's useful. It's something to ponder.