Our hands are made to make

Summary

• Humans are designed to build things with their hands

Details

• Since manual labor is looked down upon, we have become a society of consumers, instead of makers

References

• The Year of Less - Cait Flanders

Quotes

It’s innate. It’s intrinsic to human nature. Our hands are made to make. But our society and the way we educate our children dismisses manual labour – it is only for those who have failed, who are not intellectually up to doing anything else. And because of this attitude, instead of being a society of makers we are a society of consumers, dependent on buying everything we need and easily swayed into buying so much we don’t.’

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• Take a hand in the work like Nehemiah