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> implying your spouse is not a smart person

My spouse is a smart person. But she cares about computers about as much as I care about how billion dollar corporate partnerships are made. She just wants her computer to work and I just want my credit card to get discounts.

Nice try, _dummy_!

/s

Or a smart overwhelmed person who comes home tired and would love not to have to consider extra problems on top of family life and their demanding job. Plenty smart in a domain and just doesn't want to think in another is a common pattern.

As someone pointed out elsewhere, their very own comment makes this implication:

> Smart people want to solve their own problems

> Your spouse does not want to know how it works so that they can fix it themselves

It's context dependent. The situation is different if it's, say, a colleague instead of your spouse. I think people are reading way too much into that part of the comment.

Where is that implied other than the wife not being interested in learning a specific domain.

> Smart people want to solve their own problems

> Your spouse does not want to know how it works so that they can fix it themselves

A good faith reading would be that you know your spouse well enough to recognize when this advice applies.