Luxury Tool

[Wrench-Polisher]

The only part I'll argue with is the one about their kicking our asses on the machines you mentioned all of which were pioneered by America and through Wall Street greed ceeded to the Japanese and later to the Chinese.

My feelings on this are complicated. I will share a memory for the year 2000 when I was still in high school.
I was in a walmart parking lot and I saw a blue pickup truck pull in with proud union member sticker on it, guy got out and went into walmart.
I an not that old but if I was older I would have remembered Walmart and other chains DESTOROYING small business in America. But it was done with OUR help, every time we shopped at walmart we gave walmart more rope to hang us with.
Now here we are living on credit and corporations owning our own data and even the software on our electronics is not our own.
We are in debt, we own nothing and we are supposed to be happy.

 

[neophyte]

All this Japanese Zen stuff is fine but I'll take power tools every time. The way I see it after I cut it down whatever soul the tree had has gone to tree heaven. Yea, it's true, I'm a German *****, but that's just the way I see it. They built handcrafted Zero's we build B-29s on a production line. We all know how that turned out.

The French invented the Monocoque plywood aircraft.
Every other major country tried to copy the idea, with Germany I think, being the only country that succeeded in mass producing monocoque plywood aircrafts during WWI.
Britain (De Havilland) continued making similar and larger aircraft in large numbers during WWII, when most other production if air raft had switched to sheet metal.