Reddit inadvertently describes the process defined in Idiocracy
submitted 4 years ago by Vigte from (old.reddit.com)
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I was expecting the usual low effort jokes and stale memes - but I saw "Roofing". However, it was the replies to this that surprised... and horrified me.
What these people are essentially describing is an idiocracy that begins with 98% of roofers and dishwashers being "ex-cons, future-cons or future-reoffenders" as the second post in the chain puts it.
"Roofing and roofing techniques will be forgotten". Now to a certain extent this is silly, we have information stored all over the place - but it's the hands-on master-apprentice fine details that will be lost.
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