Many industries are this way, people don't seem to realize it's only in some cases two or three people in an entire region that are keeping some key peice of equipment going. Like shit even our infrastructure is that now, we used to have people on site everywhere monitoring but now so much is just a guy in an office doing the work of 50 people.

There's a whole ass XKCD someone's no doubt posted somewhere in this thread....

I always have this at the back of my mind

You do not want to see how the sausage gets made