On Jan 31, 9:52*pm, "Max" wrote:
On Jan 30, 11:36 pm, RicodJour wrote:

Power tools are just an extension of the industrial revolution's aim
to obviate operator skill in favor of cheap labor.

Damn. *And all this time I thought it was all about efficiency.

Yes, of course. Efficiency to hire cheaper and fewer people. That's
where sabotage comes from.

Whenever a new technology increases efficiency, it starts out
expensive and the proletariat only get to play with it when it gets
cheap enough.

R