It was and still is valuable to be able to maintain the devices and machines that you and people around you use. I’m not sure why you seem to be implying that stopped being the case for cars.
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holdthecheese@lemmy.world 2 months agoMaybe it doesn’t matter if someone is tech savvy. There was a time when we really valued the ability to fix your own car.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
i think it does though, tech literacy is a huge boon to personal productivity, and work productivity. There is almost no scenario in which being somewhat tech literate isn’t good for you, i think it’s more like written language.
skyspydude1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, that time is even moreso now because cars are far more complex and expensive as fuck now. Just the HVAC system alone on a modern luxury car probably has more components than the entirety of my old 1972 MG. You can bet your ass my friends find it very valuable when I can quickly fix stuff on their cars a dealership wanted to charge $1200 for.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
It’s not totally de-valued. Being able to fix cars has gotten me laid more than probably anything else.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Are you a mechanic, cause that sounds like a decent job perk.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
A long time ago. Now I just do it on the side but knowing how to fix cars has always been a good “in” to get girls to talk to me but from there I still had to actually get them to go out with me and see where it went. It’s not like I was just straight up trading car repairs for sex.
Emerald@lemmy.world 2 months ago
username checks out