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cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something, but no matter how many times it's repeated by somebody, I simply do not believe telling somebody (or something) else to do a thing is the same as doing the thing yourself.
If you hire an artist and tell them to make a picture, and they go and create that picture without your assistance, you are not the artist. You are something else.
The same is true of all the other roles in the world. You're either doing the thing, or you're not. If you're not doing the thing, then you must be doing something else, whatever that happens to be.
Don't steal the valor of other's efforts, or alternatively, denigrate their efforts in a misguided attempt to inflate your own role.