> If millions of people carried machine shops around in their backpacks, mechanical engineering would be incompatible with the patent system too. Ah, another p

> If millions of people carried machine shops around in their backpacks, mechanical engineering would be incompatible with the patent system too. Ah, another person who doesn't remember when good metal shops in school were nearly universal and even the drones took shop and passed when that meant something. And yes, it was relatively easy to get the equipment and start making things.