In this specific case, the knowledge regarding how to build a house is easier to acquire than the knowledge regarding the delicate balance of the ecosystem which used to thrive where you built your house.

Some knowledge is easier to acquire than other knowledge, and that inequity breaks things that only get figured out generations or centuries down the line.

Yup.

At the point where it becomes possible to copy the entire British museum and hand it out to anyone who wants one, maybe it starts to be a good idea to do exactly that…