{"id":3033,"date":"2025-02-17T23:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2025-02-17T23:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T23:08:53","slug":"mass-production-or-production-by-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"mass production, or production by the masses?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/small-book-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/small-book-611x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/small-book-611x1024.jpg 611w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/small-book-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/small-book-768x1287.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/small-book-917x1536.jpg 917w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/small-book-1222x2048.jpg 1222w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/small-book-scaled.jpg 1528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Industrial Revolution was wrong.  Yeah, we had the technological smarts to do it.  But should we have?  The Amish, for instance, go through considered prayerful discernment before adopting a new technology.  We didn&#8217;t.  We just rushed madly ahead. [*And, incidentally, we&#8217;re doing the same thing with the Fourth Industrial Revolution &#8212; with all things digital, including AI most recently.]  In this book (above), the author wrote that mass production is a &#8220;&#8230;sophisticated, highly capital-intensive, high-energy input dependent, and human labor-saving technology.&#8221;  Clunk!  Or Ghandi&#8217;s take was: &#8220;The poor of the world cannot be helped by mass production, only by production by the masses.&#8221;  Translated:  We would be <em>way<\/em> better off going back to individual, quality craftsmanship within a framework paradigm of: &#8220;Local Production for Local Consumption.&#8221;  How?  Our position paper proposal for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/economy\">New Economy explains..<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Industrial Revolution was wrong. Yeah, we had the technological smarts to do it. But should we have? The Amish, for instance, go through considered prayerful discernment before adopting a new technology. We didn&#8217;t. We just rushed madly ahead. [*And, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3033\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}