This is indeed a vastly underappreciated point. One issue here is the resulting fragility of the economy. If crucial nodes of competence were to be wiped out b

This is indeed a vastly underappreciated point. One issue here is the resulting fragility of the economy. If crucial nodes of competence were to be wiped out by disaster, domino effects could have system-level implications as recovery might take too long. On a more personal level, people more and more lack the competence to understand non-local connections of the world they live in. Resulting in them not being able to judge consequences and making according mistakes.