[TheForge] Fw: Can't compete w/ this

[David Childress]

Nobody can compete with that.  The real mystery is that I make more
than $50K/yr. and can still barely pay my bills.  I do not have many
bad habits, except blacksmithing, and I still barely can pay my bills
and It takes me more tham half a year to come up with enough to buy an
anvil.
   I work in a factory an daily see the wonders of modern production,
no hand work can compete even at $0.05/ day wages.  The efficiency of
scale.  A couple of years ago Wally World had shepards hooks cheap
enough local smiths were buying them because they could not get the
material for that price.  But it still cost $50K/yr to live, maybe we
need to look real hard at how our grandparents and great grandparents
lived.

David Childress
Rocky Forge Blacksmith Guild

On 12/8/07, dan tull <dantull at numail.org> wrote:
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