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I'm reading an interesting and entertaining book, "The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History" by Nancy Hiller. https://nrhillerdesign.com/writing/books/ Not so much how to make a Hoosier Cabinet, but evolution of a kitchen from the 17th to 21st centuries (at least in what I've read.) She made an interesting observation in economics in the introduction. It reminded me a lot of the time my mother and grandmothers spent in the kitchen. A neighbor offered her to come over an pick some of their cherries for a pie. Overwhelmed by the picking, the neighbor filled up her bucket with some of his pickings. Home and spent time pitting them, then making the crust and backing. At her normal shop rate of $50/hr, she figured her time involvement was $170 for one pie, one she could have bought signed, sealed and delivered for $10.. And she did not need to grow, harvest and grind the grain (to say nothing of tree culture). I could not help but draw the corollary that the same is true of the individual custom furniture maker vs. the automated factory.
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