"What do you do for a living?" "Basically, I make machines that lie to fish." I know there's a very good reason for all of it but sometimes I try to imagine ex

"What do you do for a living?" "Basically, I make machines that lie to fish." I know there's a very good reason for all of it but sometimes I try to imagine explaining our jobs to people of several centuries prior. It's almost impossible to do without having about six whys in the list and it occurs to me that civilization is an ever-increasing layers of why atop one another.