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0 pointsblfr7y ago0 comments

Yes but saving a few pennies is not how industrial civilization got rich. Mass manufactured goods are orders of magnitude cheaper than their hand-crafted equivalents.

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danmaz747y ago

My point is that, of those orders of magnitude, some came out of innumerable penny savings accumulated over 200 years.

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0 pointsblfr7y ago0 comments

Yes but saving a few pennies is not how industrial civilization got rich. Mass manufactured goods are orders of magnitude cheaper than their hand-crafted equivalents.

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danmaz747y ago

My point is that, of those orders of magnitude, some came out of innumerable penny savings accumulated over 200 years.

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