Thursday, February 24, 2011

DIY

“What ordinary people once made, they buy; and what they once fixed for themselves, they replace entirely or hire an expert to repair, whose expert fix often involves installing a pre-made replacement part…so perhaps the time is ripe for reconsideration of an ideal that has fallen out of favor: manual competence.”

-Mathew B. Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
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