The latter is getting skills in real-world productive work? One problem with our information-and-services economy is that it enables a giant proportion of the

The latter is getting skills in real-world productive work? One problem with our information-and-services economy is that it enables a giant proportion of the population to live without any understanding of how anything in the physical world operates. You inhabit a universe of magic, using magic made by other people to provide services. Eventually the entire country loses the ability to make anything in the real world.