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Aside from a lack of empathy this just isn’t true. TV repair shops aren’t the great career they used to be; you can’t make a living on basic soldering skills, a Radio Shack catalog, patience and elbow grease, and a good set of screwdrivers anymore.


Most of the programmers I know would not be able to do that, what I mean is that they should become programmers.


There’s no special skill overlap between programming and repairing consumer electronics with parts from other consumer electronics.


I think the Right to Repair people want a world where that’s at least marginally true.




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