Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Barrister]

By the way didn't your family post something recently about how you should stop whining about low wage labor and go out and develop skills and now they are saying unskilled labor is way superior to people who have skills?

There's a lot of things wrong with that meme.

First of all potholes are most significantly a problem in areas with regular freeze-thaw cycles.  That's not typically an issue in a Mediterranean climate like Italy.  Second of course lots of people notes the Romans did indeed have skilled engineers.  Third lots of roman roads have not survived.  And fourth the Romans had a nifty labour-saving device called slaves that made a lot of things economical.

[The Brain]

Many hicks would love to pay for hand crafted roads.

[crazy canuck]

Many hicks would love to pay for hand crafted roads.

I think they meant to suggest that the military should be used to build roads not walls?

[Razgovory]

I think the Roman military built roads.  Modern asphalt roads need to be able to withstand much heavier traffic by vehicles that are much heavier than wooden wagons.  Concrete road lasts longer, but isn't as economical.  The examples of Roman roads is so poorly informed it's difficult to answer.


Who has something against engineers?  I've never heard of that.

[Grey Fox]

People who work with engineers.

[Valmy]

I think the idea is that experts are worthless and unskilled average joes know better.

[Valmy]

People who work with engineers.

Nonsense. We are lovely.

[Grey Fox]

People who work with engineers.

Nonsense. We are lovely.

Book smart people that have no street smart sense. Sure. Lovely.

[Valmy]

Book smart people that have no street smart sense. Sure. Lovely.

Nonsense. Civil Engineers have plenty of street smart sense.

[Eddie Teach]

"Street smarts" are for homeless drug addicts. No thanks.

[PRC]

I have heard one lawyer and one accountant both say "Engineers are the worst" in the last week.

[Razgovory]

I think the idea is that experts are worthless and unskilled average joes know better.

That is an annoying trend in the US.

[crazy canuck]

Book smart people that have no street smart sense. Sure. Lovely.

Nonsense. Civil Engineers have plenty of street smart sense.

[Iormlund]

People who work with engineers.

Nonsense. We are lovely.

I have heard one lawyer and one accountant both say "Engineers are the worst" in the last week.

Meh. Nobody likes lawyers. Accountants are those annoying individuals that make you glue and send to Slovakia your expense tickets every time you travel, when they could simply check the fucking corporate credit card logs.



As for whom engineers hate, I think this sketch sums it up rather well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

[viper37]

Really? Hatred for engineers? What did we do to offend your family?

Anyway you might tell them that the Romans had many great engineers who trained for many years to develop their skills. So their basic point is a lie.

I do wonder how they constructed their roads, though.  How did they compact the gravel/sand so it would not collapse under the weight of chariots?  Also, for anyone who has ever seen a roman road, they had nice chariots wheel tracks on them that developped over time