On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:51:44 -0000, :::Jerry:::: wrote:

"John Cartmell" wrote in message
...
In article
ws.net,
:::Jerry:::: wrote:
Do you really think that paying ten people to do one mans work
was
efficient, that was British industry BEFORE the '80's!

That's what you were told. You obviously believed it. It was a lie.

So one man operating a CNC lathe or CAM manufacturing (and it's
predecessors) plant is not more economic than having ten people doing
the same work? You might not like the fact that countries like the
Japan were using such methods in the late '70's and thus selling
their products cheaper but you can't change the fact that they were.

Not if twenty men had to work twice as long to make that lathe...

Appropiate technology. CNC lathes applied to making a woooden broom handle
is overkill..