Andrew Roach ✅May 1, 2017

Today is Seize The Means of Production Day #comrades.

So let's talk about what that means, in today's high-tech, distributed world.

From my home, I can produce: Books (but not paper, or ink), Music (but not instruments), Movies (but not the media on which to distribute them), various plastic bits and baubles (but not the plastic itself), applications/games/programs (but not the machines that they run on.)

Show threadFrankie Saxx
@ajroach42 Paper and ink you *could* do. Also some musical instruments. Things that would be hard to do would be tools. Precision tools would be very difficult.
May 1, 2017 at 3:33pmWeb
Show threadAndrew Roach ✅May 1, 2017

@frankiesaxx Actual artisans make precision tools by hand all the time. My roommate used to do precision woodworking for musical instruments.

It's difficult to learn, sure, but there are already people that do it.

Beyond that, I have a great (up to a point) manufacturing robot that sits in a corner of my house, waiting for me to feed it instructions, so it will make me tools. A well calibrated 3D printer can be very precise.