The current downturn is likely to pass eventually. But there are also systemic changes in the economy, arising from information technology, that have the surprising effect of making the manual trades — plumbing, electrical work, car repair — more attractive as careers.
[From The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com]
“Any society that values its philosophers more than its plumbers will find that neither its ideas nor its pipes will hold water!”
–John Gardner
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