[pa_dweller]

There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for this but I get the feeling the world is shortly going to have to absorb several hundred million buggy whip makers. All kinds of manufacturing and skilled jobs are going to go poof! No jobs, no income, no tax revenue - governments collapse.

But, hey, I could be wrong.

[bert]

The flip side is cottage industry custom manufacturing shops.

An unemployed old design engineer teams up with an old unemployed shop guy and a young unemployed guy or two and set up shop in a low rent old store front.

They take orders over the internet and ship all over the world custom crafted prototypes.

I can grock it