What do you think of HN's cstross take in his novel _Saturn's Children_ ? > Please excuse my lack of depth; I'm a generalist, not a specialist. > Why bother l

What do you think of HN's cstross take in his novel _Saturn's Children_ ? > Please excuse my lack of depth; I'm a generalist, not a specialist. > Why bother learning all that biochemistry stuff --- or how to design a building, or conn a boat, or balance accounts, or solve equations, or comfort the dying --- when you can get other people to do all that for you in exchange for a blow job? (to me, it seems to be more a blow job specialist's view than that of an actual generalist, but ...)