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I read things like this so often I can't help but assume that a lot of people think this but I find the thought so incomprehensibly alien that I can't really un

• coldtea 13y ago
  To give an example I think you'll understand better. Let's say tomorrow the stable life you have collapses. A war, a meteor strikes, riots -- whatever. You have no electricity anymore, no super-markets, no gas, and everybody is trying to survive. What exactly survival skills do you have in a situation like this? If you are a fat, lazy-ass programmer, are you any worth at all top people trying to survive there? Your ancestor from 5-6 generations ago, living in some log cabin, could probably be ten times as useful and knowledgable about what had to be done. Something was lost in the process from man surviving using several skills to couch potato programmer that has everything served to him on a silver platter. Now, you might find those kind of things unlikely to ever be needed again, but you can see how it makes sense at ONE level at least. (What I described, btw, is a quite common theme in literature and movies).