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by unsupp0rted 387 days ago
No, there's always going to be room for craftsmen who make things better than machines do.

In other words, there isn't always going to be room for craftsmen.

The 20th and early 21st century is the only time in human history when humans both 1) had machines that can make things and 2) the things machines made weren't better.

That's a blip. From now on, there'll be no comparison. The only reason to want something made by a craftsman is philosophical: "I want something markedly worse, but knowing it's been made by human hands".