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Also forgot midwifing, babysitting, and education. No professional lives forever, so a civilization must constantly grow and train replacements.

• quacked 4y ago
  Midwifing is medicine, babysitting is not an industry, and formal education was invented in the 1800s. People have been capable of educating each other and watching children without full-time school for thousands of years, it's only recently that westerners completely forgot how to do it.
  • formerkrogemp 4y ago
    > People have been capable of educating each other and watching children without full-time school for thousands of years, it's only recently that westerners completely forgot how to do it. You sound ignorant of how western society works. Cost of living has increased significantly in the west and globally so that both parents must work to provide for children, especially in urban areas. Work opportunities are often only to be found in urban areas away from grandparents and other potential caretakers. You should reexamine your priors, assumptions, and unnecessary biases. Or, have you completely forgotten how to learn?
    • quacked 4y ago
      Yawn. If you think all of that past-60-years crap is necessary for the survival of civilization, you deserve the modern lifestyle. I said "the fundamental industries", not "the current industries".
• AussieWog93 4y ago
  Don't forget the aqueducts! And sanitation!
  • quacked 4y ago
    Shelter, food, and medicine. Worst case you could replace "shelter" with "construction"