What specialist skill/skills are you actively cultivating to assure your usefulness no matter the state of the world?
We hear all the gay commies thinking they'll be the poets and prostitutes after the revolution, but what real skills are you developing?
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el_hoovy on scored.co
1 month ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)2 children
shit, i'm in trouble... the only non-artistic skill i have is programming. can any of you guys build a 6502 out of all those trees you know how to chop down?
ah don't worry, i'm well on my way to a lucrative career in video game development. someone on our side's gotta make em. i was just joking about how everyone's specialist skill here is really hands on, but nothing that couldn't have been done in the year 1950, hahaha.
EDIT: incidentally i guess i know how to set up a large-scale greenhouse plantation, and care for and harvest a good few types of veggies, which is sort of a specialist skill in this day and age... but i'm not nearly as passionate about the stuff as the game dev.
1 month ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
It's not the end of the world, but you need to have a lot of faith that the institutions that exist today will continue to resemble themselves in luxury and complexity for the remainder of your life if you plan to rely on those kinds of skills
i don't think it is possible to put the digital cat back in the bag anymore. even in some fantastical, meteor-hits-the-world type collapse, people who remember computers (everyone) will intend to keep using them and will need someone to work them.
remember also that, even though it might feel like it, most computerization in the world isn't twitter and facebook, but manufacturing robots in factories, refinery monitoring systems, vitals monitors in hospitals, and variable valve timing to make your motors more efficient. the gayification of the visible online world hides a lot of true, efficient, White goodness that digitalization has brought us.
that being said, my specialization *is* video games which *are* a hell of a lot less important in a collapse scenario. even then, though, i'd bet good money that an electronics engineer who can fix up old handhelds and a programmer who can give you pong to play on them would together not be starving even in a dog-eat-dog, bare necessities world. entertainment has a value even in survival. it's why that guy drew a face on a volleyball and started talking to it.
I agree we aren't going to fall back into pre-industrial times, but the knowledge and skill to build these computerized systems is being lost and exported as we speak.
EDIT: incidentally i guess i know how to set up a large-scale greenhouse plantation, and care for and harvest a good few types of veggies, which is sort of a specialist skill in this day and age... but i'm not nearly as passionate about the stuff as the game dev.
remember also that, even though it might feel like it, most computerization in the world isn't twitter and facebook, but manufacturing robots in factories, refinery monitoring systems, vitals monitors in hospitals, and variable valve timing to make your motors more efficient. the gayification of the visible online world hides a lot of true, efficient, White goodness that digitalization has brought us.
that being said, my specialization *is* video games which *are* a hell of a lot less important in a collapse scenario. even then, though, i'd bet good money that an electronics engineer who can fix up old handhelds and a programmer who can give you pong to play on them would together not be starving even in a dog-eat-dog, bare necessities world. entertainment has a value even in survival. it's why that guy drew a face on a volleyball and started talking to it.