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Great essay. Making is a movement in America, because it isn't a necessity. In China, repairing things instead of throwing them away is the norm. So there ar
by TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
Great essay. Making is a movement in America, because it isn't a necessity. In China, repairing things instead of throwing them away is the norm. So there are large numbers of Makers in every town, who honed their skills in electronics repair.
When robots bring down the cost of new goods to the point where it no longer makes sense to repair things--because they are so cheap to replace--China will lose its Makers just as America did.
And then they'll have a Maker movement.
- rasz_pl 12y agoYou are delusional. When robots are good enough to build everything and labour cost of manufacturing approaches zero there will be NO ONE to buy anything. We will end up with 1% owning robots, 9% working directly on robots(designing/fixing), and 90% in favelas eating grass and cardboard bread.
- eonwe 12y agoAnd robots doing what? Creating cardboard for the people in favelas to eat? I think you're being a bit overly pessimistic here.