Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Muchine-made product.

Hand-made items can be beautiful and valuable, but almost everyone would prefer machine-made merchandise. One reason is reliable quality. When an item is made by machine, it may not be as beautiful as a handmade article, but quality tends to be more uniform in the case of a machine-manufactured product. However, one cannot have such assurance of uniform quality when dealing with handmade products, because the quality may differ greatly from item to item. Machine-made products, by contrast, are more likely to provide quality one can trust in every case. Of course, there are situations where only handmade products are desirable. For example, a mass-produced Picasso would not be a Picasso at all. However, such situations are rare. For most purposes, machine-made products are unquestionably best from clothing to china. Therefore, I prefer items made by machine.

2 comments:

ouilz said...

Hi.. my friend, Ben...
How are you today? How about our basketball game? Do you enjoy it?

Oui

Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 U said...

Hi Ben,

Hmmm -- I'm not sure I agree with you. As you know, I like to make my own clothes (when I have time). It's true that my clothes might not be as good quality or as durable as commercial clothing, but it is a)original, b) tailored just for me, and totally reflects my sensibility. A handmade item of clothing shows the traces of labor more lovingly than something turned out in a factory made by someone paid too little for their hard work. I think people nowadays don't really recognize how much labor and skill the common things around us require -- you can't really know that until you have tried to make something, don't you think?