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Division of labor. Not everyone has to be a producer in every sphere; it's okay to be a producer in some, and a consumer in others. Plenty of people are too bu
by UVB-76 13y ago
Division of labor. Not everyone has to be a producer in every sphere; it's okay to be a producer in some, and a consumer in others.
Plenty of people are too busy with other aspects of their lives — doing things which may, for all we know, be of great cultural significance — to spend time being a producer in the digital sphere as well.
Some people devote their lives to cooking for others; others devote their lives to other pursuits, and only ever consume food produced by others.
- Touche 13y agoThat's where the analogy falls apart, people who only eat out are a small percentage of the overall popular whereas people who only need a tablet are purportedly the norm.
- UVB-76 13y agoThe numbers don't have to be the same for the analogy to work. In any case, I think you're underestimating the number of people who never cook, or cook very infrequently. In your average family household, one person typically cooks the vast majority of the meals. To clarify, by cooking I mean real cooking — beginning with raw ingredients, going through numerous stages of preparation requiring some degree of skill, etc.