browsing reddit to understand boomer ux better and learned something counter-intuitive:

I broke my back lifting moloch to heaven. ntik.me

something similar happened with cars in the past. Every dude in the US could repair a car at one point bc they ~had to. Now it's so rare that 99% of people don't need to know anything about how they work to live their life

my grandfather (born in USSR in the late 40s) could fix absolutely everything. and for the things he couldn’t, he somehow always found a way to network to someone who would teach him. he was the talk of the town

they don't build em like they used to rip