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	<title>Comments on: The engineering shortage: Japan</title>
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		<title>By: yurri</title>
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		<description>That was predictable. Being an engineer means that your knowledge is logical and formalizable. So this knowledge can be shared easily and transfered from one to another - and the value of every specific performer is not high and he can be replaced in any time (well, not really in any time but with calculable efforts).

And when you master some knowledge that cannot be formalized as easily - interior design, dj and so on - your value as a performer is high because those who like you can&#039;t replace you. That&#039;s funny because producing electronics is much more harder that mixing songs - but despite this electronics engineers don&#039;t have their own faces but every artist does. And people like to have a cognate face.

I think it&#039;s a problem to the world we know, but to my regret it happens because of immanent engineering qualities.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That was predictable. Being an engineer means that your knowledge is logical and formalizable. So this knowledge can be shared easily and transfered from one to another &#8211; and the value of every specific performer is not high and he can be replaced in any time (well, not really in any time but with calculable efforts).</p>
<p>And when you master some knowledge that cannot be formalized as easily &#8211; interior design, dj and so on &#8211; your value as a performer is high because those who like you can&#8217;t replace you. That&#8217;s funny because producing electronics is much more harder that mixing songs &#8211; but despite this electronics engineers don&#8217;t have their own faces but every artist does. And people like to have a cognate face.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s a problem to the world we know, but to my regret it happens because of immanent engineering qualities.</p>
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