> Just like people still use typewriters, make their own clothes, or cook themselves dinner etc.
One of these things is not like the others. Your silicon valley bubble privilege is showing.
One of these things is not like the others. Your silicon valley bubble privilege is showing.
At least with keyboards you can say they actually replaced typewriters but the other two are just paying someone else to do the same labor.
That was the day I realized being a software engineer from greater America is totally different than those from SV. The coddling was (is?) unreal.
Don't get me wrong, I partake in the group hazing ritual of guys who can't cook—it's good fun. But on the tiniest bit of introspection it's pretty obvious it's well on the way to becoming a hobby. We're already 90% of the way there with the hallowing out of the 'middle' between glorified warming prepared foods and enthusiast home cooks. The class divide isn't really cooks/non-cooks anymore it's DoorDash vs grocery store freezer section. Sad but not unexpected.
edit: to offer a slightly more substantive reply I will offer the Merriam Webster definition of cooking, which is "to prepare food for eating by a heating process" which applies just as much to warming preprepared or frozen foods as it does to enthusiast home cooks. I agree with you that the class divide is exemplified by the extremes of rich idiots who can just order Doordash for every meal and people who rely on the grocery store freezer section. The difference is that the people in the grocery store freezer section are actually cooking their food, while the Doordash people aren't, and the former category of people is substantially larger than the latter.