Almost every trade has people freaking out and trying to push us all to be generalists. And I'll continue ignoring pretty much all of them, because division of

Almost every trade has people freaking out and trying to push us all to be generalists. And I'll continue ignoring pretty much all of them, because division of labor is a lot of why society is so advanced. I'll grant them the chickens though, mass produced meat is one case where the abstraction hides some horrors that should be exposed. But simple loss of skill isn't enough to convince me. I don't need to be able to build a CPU from scratch, any more than the CPU designer needs to know all of CSS. These things are cool and worth exploring, but most any tech one person can understand themselves is probably a historical curiosity more than a practical thing. The rare exceptions like rope and knots are incredibly fascinating.