• lvl13charlatan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I feel like plumbing and electrical work are things you should just pay professionals to do. The risk of things going very sideways is just too high for me.

    • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      if only you knew how easy it was to learn plumbing and electric. i can teach it to you in a day, and have you mastered in a week on site. And I’m one of the contractors who fleece you idiots. Nothing is gate kept. Nothing. only your desire to Learn and Try and Practice is what’s keeping you back. if you want to accept the limits you set for yourself, sure. But I’ll keep improving and trying to reach my next plateau.

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        1 year ago

        And no one’s keeping you from growing your own crop, baking your own bread, making your own clothes, programming your own software, building your own website, etc.

        But nobody’s got time to learn and do everything by themselves. The greatest benefit of living in a society is division of labor so that everyone can specialize in any field. Without that, progress would not be possible and we’d still be cavepeople each doing their own shit.

        Please don’t judge people on what stuff they want to do themselves and what they want to pay others to do.