Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Tool Usage

The tools themselves have to be culturally inculcated. Power tools for example tend to move at high speeds with a lot of energy, and if something goes wrong it goes much more wrong much quicker, despite all of the time and labor that those tools save. So their usage and their operation is taught through higher levels of stress and care: mistakes are more costly, both for the operator and the tool. For that matter, as supply chain issues and inflation persist, an injury or a broken tool - the more physical damage or the more higher up the value chain the tool is, the higher the stakes - can create quite the stir. Whoever may break a given tool, or suffer a given accident - even if the tools have inferior designs or materials - may very well embody the cause of that accident or loss as the reason for misfortune.