We’re on our way. 3D printers, insanely cheap power tools, even CNCs are steadily decreasing in price while at the same time hobbyists are building metal millin

We’re on our way. 3D printers, insanely cheap power tools, even CNCs are steadily decreasing in price while at the same time hobbyists are building metal milling ones for a couple hundred dollars, there are indie plastic recyclers showing that you can make decent products with open source and cheap equipment, for AI there’s LLaMA and soon a million GPT based tools. Centralized industry requires too much sustained demand in order to make the capital investment worthwhile. There are few that really require it and they’re mostly resource extraction and refining. Not everyone need build everything but we could certainly thrive with many more tradesmen and small manufacturers.