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A half-formed thought: the common prevailing ideology of developed countries through the whole of the 20thC was that the energies of very large numbers of skilled people could be harnessed somehow (markets, central planning, some combination) to produce better and better things. And that had to be accompanied by better and better systems, and learning in common, which is why all spent so much on education, training, universities.

The modern emphasis on ‘hacking’ and individualised technical skill is almost the opposite of that dream. For better and worse