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| quote: | Originally posted by blitz~
you need to get down some basic economics. today, we are only so prosperous because every person and even country to some extent specializes in some task. the plumber is much better and faster at plumbing than you are. although plumbing is a bad example, because it is not a very challenging job. but if everyone of us just fixed, built and produced their own stuff, we will be back to caveman times. nike can produce 100 000 shoes or something like that per hour, you would take hours longer, if not days to produce something of less quality.
you on the other hand educate and specialize in your own field and thus add value to the economy. this way EVERYONE is better off if they provide the service they're best at.
even countries specialize to some extent, germany say makes better cars than the us, the us makes better computers. i buy us computers, you buy german cars and we are both better off and enjoy a higher standard of living.
if i spent all the time i spend on my specialized education building my own house and making my own cloth and growing my own food, everybody would be sort of self-sufficient but at a very low standard of living. i think if i had a wife and children they'd be way better off if i spent my time educating myselfm to earn lots of money and to be able to get them a good education instead of laying bricks somewhere in my backyard LOL?  |
He wasn't making an economic argument. I don't think he was saying we should all start to shear our own sheep and spin yarn and make our own clothes from it. He was saying a man should have the skills to do some basic handyman stuff - even if you rarely put it to use. There are plenty of cases where you can actually save time by doing things yourself. And other times when things need to be repaired at least to a basic level quite urgently.
It is ridiculous how retarded some guys are these days.. people take their car to the mechanic to change the oil (something that takes about 5 mins to do in your own garage) or a drive belt. I've met guys that couldn't change a tyre on the road and had to call for assistance. Some people can't even hang a picture on a wall ffs.. they end up calling a picture hanger (wtf kind of profession is that anyway?). I've lost count of the number of times something has gone wrong at a friends house and they wanted to call someone to come and fix it for $50 and I managed to do the repair for them in under 30mins.
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