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>Mass manufacturing will always have limitations. Mass manufacturing, by it's very nature, will target high demand, high volume markets.
I believe the answer to a robust society is to enable tens of thousands of low-volume manufacturers. Distributed systems are much more robust. (This is why I said earlier that the way the existing state-of-the-art processes are designed needs to be changed.)
>Not scalable to the home.
How many homes? With distribution comes security. This has enormous value.
>No reason any young man shouldn't be able to get a tabletop 5axis with today's tech and open source ideas.
Now you're getting somewhere. Also, this teaches everyone to be an engineer - this WILL outperform centralization over time because the real value is in the brains.
>Self-made ICs.
I see I'm preaching to the choir. See laser ablation - you don't need large scale lithography. It may even be cheaper to have many slower machines rather than a few stupidly expensive machines.
>The blacksmith is not obsolete.
Key. Automate the blacksmith and you can have them all over the place.
Other anons need to go down this road and think through this. I've been on this track for years and the understanding of it is accelerating. There are millions of ideas waiting to be implemented by millions of inventors. Enable them and the people will rule in the future.