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> So? Millions of people lack basic skills, like 1/3 of the population struggles with digital skills.

You mean people can't use their hands?

Digital skills are not real skills, they are imaginary skills that mostly boil down to "they don't know software products" but they also "don't care about them" and it's a very very very broad field, many people take for granted their knowledge about complex stuff, but basic "digital skills" are easily learned through simply doing it. Just like cooking, but less useful.

Coincidentally, I never used TikTok, I don't know how it works, it's one of the few Chinese stuff that I really don't care about (but it's ironically loved by Americans who also hate China for everything else). Based on this sentence many people would say that I lack basic digital skills, but I am also a professional software engineer since 1996. Many of the things that are basic digital skills for me, are advanced stuff for people who only use a smartphone. Many basic skills, like using a real keyboard, are alien to touchscreen natives. And so on. TikTok is not a skill, but if it was I would lack that skill.

Meanwhile cooking is something that anybody can do, even chimps ca do it

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/03/chimpanzees-...

> Some skills are basic but obscure - maintenance of a bicycle is a basic, but if you never has a bicycle, you won't have it.

as I've said, biking is harder than cooking.

> Or maybe prepping a live fish for cooking.

If you cook it in its entirety in the oven or on a grill, it will be edible, and will taste good.

Or fry it, fried lattarini are cooked exactly like that, you eat them whole.

https://www.tusciatimes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/lattar...

Virtually every animal that is not an insect can be cooked the same way: open the belly, remove internal organs, cook it. Done. .

Fancy recipes are not "cooking", there's the same distance between playing soccer with your friends and being a professional soccer player.

Saying that TikTok helped someone to learn how to cook is misleading, the merit is of the person that started doing it and learned how to do it by doing it.

Replace TikTok with "grandma book of recipe" and the result is the same.

TikTok has no real value in this story, it just happened that someone used it for inspiration because that's what that person knew. Coincidence is not the same thing of correlation.




> You mean people can't use their hands?

Have you seen British newbuilt homes? They must be using their feet!

> Digital skills are not real skills, they are imaginary skills

So is filling doing paperwork and navigating beurocracy.

We have an entire proffesion dedicates to doing just that, and every year thousands of people get in trouble because they ticked a wrong box in a form.


> So is filling doing paperwork and navigating beurocracy.

yep, exactly, that's why I pay people to do it, unless I'm required by the law to do it personally.




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