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It may be a good thing to throw scripts off to someone else. Division of labor is a good thing. You cannot possibly learn everything to a good (not even high) standard. Even if you could, no lawyer would have themselves as a client - when a lawyer needs legal advice they go to a different lawyer because they want that different perspective: this is often a good perspective for other subjects as well.

The question is what you will/should learn for your limited time alive. Society needs well educated (I include things "street smarts" and apprenticeship in educated here) people in many different subjects. Some subjects are important enough everyone needs to learn them (reading, writing, arithmetic). Some subjects are nearly useless but fun (tinplate film photography) and so worth knowing.

Things like basic computer skills are raising to the level where the majority of people today need them. However I'm not sure that scripting is itself quite at that level. (though it is important enough that a significant minority should have them)

parent bluGill 1 year ago

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