Because specialization is vastly more efficient, productive, and I don't have an interest in cutting and laminating my own circuit boards. I can pay a tiny (relative to the alternative investment of DIY) to get multilayer boards in a day.

You're changing your argument.

Before, you said people _can't_ (in general, anyone that knows how to code cannot possibly learn how circuits work).

Now, you're saying that _you don't want to learn_. That's on you, buddy. Don't project your insecurities on the whole IT field. People can, and will, learn across many layers of abstraction.

That is because you are replying to two different people.

People can learn across layers of abstraction, but specialisation is generally a good thing and creates wealth, a Scottish guy wrote a good book on it.

There are many industries that specialized but kept and refined old knowledge instead of repeating the same mistakes over and over.

> That is because you are replying to two different people.

He chose to follow the argument of the previous dude, so, it's all the same for me. Everything I said still applies.

You missed the point of that entire comment didn’t you?

If I did, people failed to explain why.

I think I made an excellent counterpoint that is not against specialization, but complementary.

This counterpoint is particularly important in an age where specialization is being oversold and mixed with snake oil.

I don't know what raincole's meaning was but can't there doesn't have to be a permanent inability just a current one, IMO backed up by the next sentence about the people making circuit boards not knowing how to refine the raw materials into those that they use. That's what I took it as.