It was mentioned a few months ago that we can get an understanding of what’s going on around us by looking at the common Adirondack chair that are on so many yards, patios, and porches.
That chair became popular after the invention of the band saw made it possible for wood to be cut more quickly than ever before. Laborers with band saws replaced earlier generations of skilled craftsmen who split, laboriously hand-sawed, planed, and sanded wood into the desired shape.
Once the pieces of wood for an Adirondack chair were cut to the pattern, they were screwed together, sanded, primered, and painted. Start to finish, it took one man-day to complete an Adirondack chair.
Today, adirondack chairs are injection molded in many colors with plastic resins. One man can make 300 Adirondack chairs in an eight-hour shift.
Where are the other 299 people?
In Christian countries, many are continually being retrained to learn new skills, and many have jobs in industries that didn’t exist a few years before. In Moslem countries, those unemployed by automation and new things just get angrier and angrier as they sit around doing nothing but getting still angrier.
In recent weeks, we can see that their collective anger has reached a boiling point.
