Comment by herrherrmann
11 hours ago
Did they? Genuine question, because I do wonder if people in some industries in the past were ever anxious about these specific things (especially skill attrition).
11 hours ago
Did they? Genuine question, because I do wonder if people in some industries in the past were ever anxious about these specific things (especially skill attrition).
> I do wonder if people in some industries in the past were ever anxious about these specific things (especially skill attrition).
I've spoken with some people (now in their 60s & 70s) that worried about skill atrophy in their line of work.
First they worried about atrophy. Then they watched skill dry up. Now they know it's not available to buy anywhere. In the better cases the skills still exist, but entirely overseas.
These are people I could recognize as sharp engineers, even if I don't know their domains at all. I had to take them at their word about the value in what was lost. The problem is that it's easy to assume that business (or at least society) would prevent degradation of valuable knowledge over time.