@JugglingJelly Bridges are a perfect example of engineering.

The purpose of Engineering is Deskilling.

If you can build a bridge you can eliminate the skilled workers required to operate the ferries to get people across the river.

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By eliminating the skilled ferries it means that the cost of crossing rivers is lowered, making it accessible to more people.

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More accessibility is good for the economy because it means that more people can do business by crossing that bridge.

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The single market was a economic engineering. It removed requirements by aligning and agreeing standards. It deskilled the customs industry by removing the requirement for expensive customs "ferrymen".

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Brexit has had the effect that it has burned the economic bridge that we had with the single market meaning we're having to rapidly increase the skills of the customs agents in an unrealistic timeframe.

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