In a dysfunctional society the loss of working knowledge becomes routine, and attempts to reverse-engineer what was lost do not always succeed.

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• Technological capability has to be practised to be kept: a country that stops making something forgets how. DWDan Wang1 Jan 2020
• The recent fall in test scores is a rich-world phenomenon, and steeper in several European countries than in America, so it cannot be blamed on American policy. FDFreddie deBoer20 Nov 2025
• Money cannot buy back a manufacturing capability a country has lost, because what is missing is the knowhow. MHMolson Hart6 Apr 2025
• Overturned findings do not make knowledge entirely uncertain; we are approaching the truth asymptotically SASamuel Arbesman29 Sept 2026
• Practicing fewer skills leads to man-with-a-hammer error and shrinks learning capacity, by leaving gaps in the latticework of theory CMCharlie Mungerc. 2005

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