On Feb 1, 1:08*am, "CW" wrote:
"Max" wrote in message
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.

True. Power tools do not make a man less of a craftsman

I agree with that for the most part. Let's try the converse:
Power tools do not make a man more of a craftsman.
Do you agree with that as well?

it just makes him more efficient.

Yes, just as learning to use his hand tools with more skill would make
him more efficient.

Nobody and nothing has a lock on efficiency. How many times have you
walked into an inefficiently set up shop that's brimming with the
latest and greatest tools? How many times have you seen a skilled
person doing something in an inefficient way?

R