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> Some examples: shoe making, artisan furniture, tailors, watchmakers. > Nowadays most people make money in bleak half-automated jobs (e.g. construction, facto
by golergka 3y ago
> Some examples: shoe making, artisan furniture, tailors, watchmakers.
> Nowadays most people make money in bleak half-automated jobs (e.g. construction, factory workers) or in white collar jobs sitting in front of a computer in some cubicle doing some mind numbing task for a megacorp.
And all the while they enjoy abundance of shoes, furniture, clothes and watches with value/price ratio absurdly high by standards of most of human history.
- dreamworld 3y agoJust wanna point out that making stuff is different from having stuff. Making your shoe is much different from buying a Nike from the store (and I don't make shoes ;) ). The craft is an activity, kind of an art by itself. Many find it enjoyable. The destination is the journey, dude!
- golergka 3y agoIt's a luxury journey that most people around the world simply can't afford. Modern world is a marvel because it feeds and clothes them. If they had to pay a market rate to the artisanal shoemaker, they would walk barefoot.