The modern way of making a living is financial chicanery and using borrowed money in a myriad of very creative ways.
The old fashioned way of making one's living was "making stuff to sell".
The credit crisis means that borrowed money will be a lot less available. For now to the consumer, but later to the government as well.
I expect that the old way will return back, which means, surprise surprise, a bigger emphasis on "manufacturing" and likely "metalworking".
Yeah, but it probably will mean whacking a piece of copper on a stone, hitting it with another stone...
-- Ed Huntress
Maybe "hitting it with remnants of CNC machinery". ;-)
Or replacing coal and gas forges with "stock certificate forges"
YOU'VE got copper? You lucky, lucky bastard!
Hang on to that worthless paper. In 50 years you can open an antique store specializing in old stock certificates from the Great Crash of '08!
Jon
I would have to burn a part of them to survive for 50 years.
At least I have an anvil to pound on:
Like you were going to make copper wire brushes...
I wonder what that would be like? Probably wouldn't be good for a damn thing, though.
Dave
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Luck has nothing to do with it. Digging it out of the ground is hard work, using this wooden stick.
It's a long way before we get back to the industrial age. 'Got any spear points you'd like to trade? I can throw in a couple of poodle skins.
-- Ed Huntress
Yeah, I saw those pics. I've got an anvil too. But... I've got Small Anvil Syndrome after seeing yours.... :)
Jon
LOL, snort!!!
You may have a big anvil but I have a big deck.
Wes
Well, actually, there are enough references to such chicanery in the bible, so it isn't ALL that new!
Jon
A good position.
I want to see what clever people can make out of scrapped cars and appliances.
They made a movie out of that. It was called "Mad Max."
-- Ed Huntress
I suspect that left on their own, most people would soon be living more like "Braveheart"
Jon, I think the accepted term is "anvil envy".
Flash
AKA 'Coyote Syndrome'. Advanced cases involve tiny umbrellas.
Suffering from that too, but my anvil really is smaller.... or, rather...... :-[
Jon
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