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Yeah quite a lot! Kicked off years back when I had a short period of interest in Marxist labor theory of value and I started thinking of commodity goods in term
by tech_ken 3y ago
Yeah quite a lot! Kicked off years back when I had a short period of interest in Marxist labor theory of value and I started thinking of commodity goods in terms of labor-hours required to convert it from raw inputs to a finished product. I live in a city now so almost nothing around me wasn't modified or produced by human labor at some point in the production chain. The knowledge and skill required to assemble all the things that surround me gets pretty heady if I think about it too hard haha, but it's also a little comforting in an odd way to think about being held up and supported by so many hands.
One fun and maybe 'surprisingly' complex everyday item is a door hinge. I use them daily, but until I changed a few back in January I never really reflected on what an ingenious little design a hinge is. Can you imagine trying to engineer one by hand, let alone design it if you'd never seen it before? Always nice to remember that we stand on the shoulders of giants.