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Can you grow your own food? Treat your own injuries? Build your own shelter? Repair your own appliances? If not, you're already much farther down this dependen
by closewith 1y ago
Can you grow your own food? Treat your own injuries? Build your own shelter? Repair your own appliances?
If not, you're already much farther down this dependency funnel that you believe.
- DocTomoe 1y agoMatter of fact, I can, and have done, all of these things. Recreationally. The idea is not to be hypergeneralist. What I observe - subjectively - is that we are losing whole generations of what used to be the 'nerdy IT/ham-radio/electronics-folks'. Sure, there is a small remnants with the makerscene, but that's mostly older people (beginning in their late teens).d
- JohnFen 1y agoYes, to all of the above. So can a lot of the people I know.
- closewith 1y agoAnd many more can not, and all are more important skills than cursory knowledge of operating systems.