• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    46·
    6 months ago

    As a software engineer I often think about how laughably useless my skillset would be in any kind of survival or societal reset sort of situation.

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
      252·
      6 months ago

      You’re a software engineer. You at least know the very basics of digital electronics, and can probably work your way backward to rudimentary power supplies.

      You are far from fucked.

      Mathematicians though? Oof I worry about them, if they did anything too practical they’d be physicists.

    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      But if you were isekaied at the start of the apocalypse, which, let’s be honest, is more likely than you surviving until post-apocalypse, you could become a monster magician!

      On the other hand, if the apocalypse were Skynet…

    • big_slap@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      you would just be able to repurpose the way you think logically into something else. I’d say you would be more ahead than a lot of others in a catastrophic scenario!

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    482·
    6 months ago

    I find it amazing that finance, sales, etc are held in such high regard when it’s science and technology that advance society.

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      162·
      6 months ago

      Most scientific and engineering skills would also be useless if civilization collapses. For example, I am a scientific software developer. Most of my work has been for medical research, which is something people tend to respect. However, I wouldn’t be able to do anything useful with numerical modelling in a survival situation. My limited skills as an amateur home renovator would be far more relevant.

      • someguy3@lemmy.world
        10·
        6 months ago

        I agree with the rebuilding civilization from scratch part, but it’s still what advances society.

        *In this case, what will advance society is farming equipment. Machining science.

        • Tobberone@lemm.ee
          8·
          6 months ago

          It’s a bit like Maslows hierarchy of needs. First we need food and water and plumbing. When we are secure in those needs, society can take the next step. But the basis of security must be there before advancement

          • someguy3@lemmy.world
            5·
            6 months ago

            I would say we need hygiene, which is different than plumbing. Plumbing comes into play when we have cities large enough that we can’t rely on outhouses.

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    36·
    6 months ago

    “Oh no, all the scum-masters are gone, who will annoy us with their inane babbling now?”

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        17·
        6 months ago

        Oh it was not a mistake, trust me.

        One once tried showing me a slideshow on what it is they actually do, because the sauna we had for that evening was from their company.

        Guy couldn’t fuckin read the room though and actually went through with his PowerPoint presentation. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how someone could ignore so many social cues from us, the people who had nothing to do with his work, his company, or any work at all. Purely recreational night and dude starts it with that.

        Yuck yuck yuck

        • WFH@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          There are two types of scrum masters. Those who are true believers in agility, and those who think it’s just a fancy bullshit name for “project manager”. The latter tend to be the the fucking worst, unfortunately they’re the most common breed.

          Truth is, a real “scrum master” (or “agile coach” for SAFe 6 people) is at best a part time job, and has only two purposes. With experience and knowledge, help the team towards making their job easier/faster/more interesting/more predictable/more serene through continuous improvement using agile methods as a toolbox (and NOT a fucking dogma), and tell idiotic managers who can’t fucking anticipate a fucking deadline more than 3 days in advance to fuck off and stop being fucking morons teach managers to respect agile principles and have a clear short- and medium-term vision so their needs can comfortably fit the team’s backlog without jeopardizing the team, other priorities or the deadlines.

          The other breed are fucking corporate yes-men who shove work over capacity onto the team and play make-believe-scrum by focusing exclusively on bullshit rituals that serve no actual fucking purpose.

  • thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world
    191·
    6 months ago

    The USA has a bs mythology that it was founded by ‘pioneers’ and that a wild wild west existed. The untold history of the USA is really the story of finance. Those that financed, the joint stock companies that helped to bring immigrants over. The land speculators, and recruiters that brought over Irish and other immigrants over in the 19th century, through money provided by rail and steam companies.
    These type of post-apocalyptic memes perpetuate the stereotype of a self-made country. When in reality financiers from England were offshoring labor to a country with fewer regulations and no copyright/patent laws.

  • danekrae@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 months ago

    One of the ways I try to sell my trade to students, is telling them how important it is for the world. Machining, welding, plumbing, carpentry and so on. All of it would be primus motor to get society back.

    • Tobberone@lemm.ee
      4·
      6 months ago

      Yes! The importance of craftsmen is hard to overstate😀 Along with a few others, of course!