"A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."
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True for sure. You are still talking about someone who knows trades. From what I see around I don't think we have enough trades people joining our movement to maintain a standard of living high enough for the developers and their cypherpunk software to be useful if things really get ugly.
Still the community mostly elevates devs and podcasters. Farmers are starting to get some credit. There is a lot to maintain between farmers keeping us from starving and using encryption and network distributed systems.
I might have a theory as to why this is. Many tradesmen end up within their own captured system--working for an established trade business handling their workload, paperwork, administrative burden vs being an independent professional. Custodial vs self-custody.
Focus on the indie trades professionals to improve resilience where you can't upskill yourself.
I'm busting my ass to upskill myself by basically trying to do everything myself. It makes me very aware how dependent I am on the internet and YouTube for access to knowledge about new skills.