What Is Being Taken From Us
What Is Being Taken From Us Craftsmanship, consumerism and AI. William Hunter Duncan In my late teens and twenties I worked mostly manual labor jobs, indoors and outside. I worked in warehouses, in shipping facilities, in a mail delivery room, a foundry, tearing siding off houses, as a bartender, roofing flat-roofs, on a lake crew for a boat business. None of it was particularly skilled work, at least not at the entry level, and I did not stick around long in the foundry or on the flat-roofs to become a master of that work. It was not until I was around thirty that I decided I wanted to learn how to remodel and build houses. I started during the early housing bubble, 2003-4, building townhomes. I then went to work with a small remodeling company, working on older homes in the Twin Cities. I was lucky, as that was one of the last remodeling companies that still had a bunch of old-timers on staff, who taught me just about every aspect of remodeling and building. The crew I worked o...