In this episode we explore the challenge of maintaining seemingly-outdated skills that we may need again I spent part of last weekend down at the Lost Trades fair down in Bendigo, a few miles from here, wandering around all the stalls with artisans doing blacksmithing, armour, chairmaking, bookbinding, toolmaking, fabrics, guitars, all that kind of stuff, almost all of it all handmade. Fascinating; passionate; often strikingly beautiful.
Tom, you mentioned " Oh well, we do what we can, yes?" this is a very important aspect, and the reason why your posts are so critical in getting these messages out.
The re-integration of Taiwan into mainland China has the potential to become a disaster for the western world mobile and computer industries. Supply chains could potentially disappear overnight with devastating impact. We also now have the learn, unlearn, relearn fraternity who would like us to believe that anything that does not benefit their agenda should be erased from memory.
Replacing skills lost can potentially take decades and the ability to produce these skills at pace are being impacted by the retirement of baby-boomers who were the final bastion of these relative skills.
The American commercial machine will need to take responsibility for a large swathe of organizations demise to feed the capitalist agenda.
Trades will always be a major differentiator that remains resilient to this trend.
Tom, you mentioned " Oh well, we do what we can, yes?" this is a very important aspect, and the reason why your posts are so critical in getting these messages out.
Thank you for your efforts to raise awareness.
Hi Tom,
The re-integration of Taiwan into mainland China has the potential to become a disaster for the western world mobile and computer industries. Supply chains could potentially disappear overnight with devastating impact. We also now have the learn, unlearn, relearn fraternity who would like us to believe that anything that does not benefit their agenda should be erased from memory.
Replacing skills lost can potentially take decades and the ability to produce these skills at pace are being impacted by the retirement of baby-boomers who were the final bastion of these relative skills.
The American commercial machine will need to take responsibility for a large swathe of organizations demise to feed the capitalist agenda.
Trades will always be a major differentiator that remains resilient to this trend.