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Originally Posted by wdb
So what you're really saying is that the manual is dying because a substantial and increasing number of humans can't coordinate their feet and their hands at the same time.
Okay now I'm depressed.
To compensate I think I'll take the cabriolet for a spin and dazzle my wife with my double clutch downshifts, which she thinks are some kind of magic I do, which I find amusing and, a little bit, you know, energizing -- like the bunny.
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No I am saying it’s like any specialized craft. If you don’t have young end willing to learn the craft, of experienced craftsmen willing to teach the craft, you will continue to marginalize the craft.
Same can be said of American manufacturing. American manufacturing in certain industry is dead, but is it because American craftsmen aren’t competitive on a global scale, of is it globalization that’s causing American craftsmen to lose their jobs to a point that no one wanted to be a craftsmen?
In a way the death of manuals reflect American blue collar manufacturing jobs. Regulations were in place that made American manufacuring uncompetitve, and now decades later it’s too late to reverse the trend. It really wasn’t that American manufacturing was inferior to China, but DECADES of decline lead to a point where American manufacturing can no longer BE competitive.
How’s anyone who wants to learn how to drive a stick learn when there are very few manuals left on the road?