Shamefully true ....
When you run across a lot of mechanical items , mowers, cars, guns, outboard motors, common hand-tools, garden tools etc., etc., etc.
I find it easy to recognize the difference in quality , and craftsmanship. The days of "pride" in one's work has become ...
how much can I get for it & how fast !! True tradesmen / craftsmen are disappearing rapidly, perhaps our military with an
increasing inventory of "outdated" items and a numbered few of financially solvent companies is the last stronghold of our "ancient" principles and methods that were handed down generation to generation .
Granted, THERE are still many things out "there" today bearing the marks of a craftsman ...meticulously precise , born of dedication to ethics of a person with high standards , brought forth with little or no regard for the amount of time required for it's evolution, most likely it's arrival was prompted by necessity, but more so by desire . And the persons, able to differentiate between quality
and garbage, is also beginning to wane. I'll easily agree modern technology has given us many great things and the "tools" to build
them , BUT ... do we build things to last a PERSONS lifetime or that... of a guess, of the constructive materials lifetime ???
It is unfortunate that todays things of quality have to compete with "garbage" in the price of "goods" ...... Boobala