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I do not (confidently) know how to make fire from "scratch". I do not know how to butcher or skin an animal. I do not know how to spin cloth, nor how to stitch it into clothing. My "finding the perfect kind of stone for knapping into a handaxe" muscles have fully atrophied.

We live in a society. That means giving up self-sufficiency in exchange for bigger leverage in our chosen specialisation. I am 110% confident that when electric power became widespread, people were making the exact same argument against using it as you are making now.



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