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The latter is getting skills in real-world productive work?

One problem with our information-and-services economy is that it enables a giant proportion of the population to live without any understanding of how anything in the physical world operates. You inhabit a universe of magic, using magic made by other people to provide services.

Eventually the entire country loses the ability to make anything in the real world.



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