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Just a thought: There are a couple factors that would result in a longer lasting tool of Yore... There were no plastics and other ephemeral materials, and so
by samstave 5y ago
Just a thought:
There are a couple factors that would result in a longer lasting tool of Yore...
There were no plastics and other ephemeral materials, and so tool handles were wood, leather or metal.
There was no 'mass production at global scale' - effectively every tool was hand made, or made by machines that were made by hand to make the tools -- and all of which were done without aid of computational mathematical prowess-by-proxy...
So, smaller batches of potentially longer lasting product because everything was continually being crafted by hand and observed by human eye...
- ido 5y agoIn terms of building I remember hearing how in the distant past (anything before the last 200 years or so) the buildings that survived to this day have just used way too much materials in a way that would seen as wasteful today (e.g. double as much stone as was needed because they couldn't calculate it as precisely as we can today). Would you be willing to pay double for your new home to make it last 300 years instead of 100?
- bluGill 5y agoWhen answering that question, note how much effort is needed to retrofit to modern needs. Electric, running water, closets, all things modern humans demand that you would need to retrofit.