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Life changed less than you think: The cobbler down the streets still makes shoes, the butcher next door still cures meat, the carpenter in the neighbourhood st
by niemandhier 3y ago
Life changed less than you think:
The cobbler down the streets still makes shoes, the butcher next door still cures meat, the carpenter in the neighbourhood still builds chairs.
It’s just that the cobblers brother works in a bio-factories clean room, and the carpenters wife is a sysadmin.
- ben_w 3y agoI've not seen any "down the street"-scale cobbler outside a museum, and the only trained carpenter I know was literally homeless until they found a chance to be a software tester. There are butchers around, though who knows how long that will last, once vat-grown flesh is both affordable and available.
- niemandhier 3y agoI guess Europe is just different,I drive past 2 carpentries and one cobbler on my way to work, and there are 7 butchers and 9 bakeries in a 15km radius.