Quote by Walter Mosley

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. M

Summary

The quote highlights the shift in society's reliance on specialization and outsourcing. The speaker reminisces about a time when individuals had diverse skills and could independently tackle various tasks. Nowadays, there seems to be an overreliance on hiring others to perform basic tasks, reflecting a lack of general knowledge and self-sufficiency among people.

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