[Professor S]

I have to disagree on your "chicken or egg" theory, but I'll leave it at that. As for it being easy to build computers, I have no doubt that it is. I've been upgrading and messing with my PC's for a long time ( and I have no clue what the Hell an "SLI" or whatever is or what it does. I'll bet only about 1% of the population actually does.)

But it also takes knowledge to do so. The difference between someone being able to build their own PC and not being able to is as simple as knowing what you are doing. Thats the same with any skill.

I'm a chef. I know how to cook and honesly, 95% of all recipes are easy as hell. Yet not that many people are really good at cooking and if they open a recipe and buy the food for it, their end product will still end up an unappetizing mess. Knowledge leads to experience which leads to mastery.

I also think the "technology intimidation" factor adds a lot into it as well.