Originally posted by jatrax LOL. We always considered those city slickers that couldn't wire a house, fix the plumbing and plow forty acres to be rather useless parts of humanity. If you cannot build it, create it or fix it what are you doing? Guess I must be a peasant at heart.
Been a long time I think that some "useless" people are preciously kept in the community like doctors or soldiers or politicians/leaders
. Even people that only know how to tell good stories or make good musics ! We can discuss their utility, but that not new for sure.
Oh we have more specialists theses day, but that by no way a new trend.
In my job it is the same. I'am a software engineer and people think I'am the guy that maybe repair the computer. They don't get that no, I'am into flight reservations systems in fact and so part of my job (and many others) is to compute and return the best flights recommendations for a trip, ensure that when you actually book it, the seat is actually kept for you, that when you take a trip with 3 flights all airlines cooperate to bring you to the final destination even if one of the flight is late and so on. And no, I have no idea why they computer stopped working... Except maybe that they brought a device with very low quality components, that they didn't backup their data at all and that they tryed every executable files they could put their hand on while surfing the web
In fact, we all tend to think that what we do is complex and important... And that other don't do much...