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Originally Posted by Red_YJ

I'm sorry guys but things like this have been happening a very long time. None of this is intended to offend anyone. 80% of people don't actually know how to drive a car. They aim it and push the accellerator. These people wouldn't have a clue how to drive a car with a standard transmission, and a manual choke. Let's go back even further. Almost all of us don't know how to churn our butter from milk freshly milked from a cow. Most of us don't even know how or when to milk a cow at all. Let's go back even further than that. Few of us here know how to harvest wheat and process it to make flour or any other wheat realated product, such as bread. Now let's go back to the begining of humanity. Very few of us at all can make fire out of flint or sticks and hunt our own meat down with nothing more than a sharpend stick. We don't know how to process the skin from our hunted animal to make clothing. If the governments of the world really wanted to, we would all but starve to death just by shutting down the farms and factories. Most of us here would be pretty helpless should the farming industry and factories of our countries be shut down. I'll probably never buy an Android phone because I probably couldn't afford one but Google is just doing what has been done through out history starting with our hunter, gatherer ancestors. They make things easier for the masses to the point that we forget how to do it ourselves and they continue to market to us. I, myself, don't have a clue how to make butter, milk a cow, hunt my own meat with a spear, make clothing from hide or make fire with flint and sticks. I am, however, in the 20% that does own a car with a manual transmission and choke.
I couldn't afford an automatic everything car so I was forced to learn the primative car driving method at a young age.
This is just a continuation of what has been going on sense the beginning of time.

ahm..what? most ppl do know how to milk a cow and use a flint to make fire..just don't have the experience to do it efficiently..if the necessity really arrived ppl would pull it off...as for hunting with a spear..why? we are not cave man..we can at least set traps...