Frozen History 7

Every supply pack for art costs more than the finished product at Walmart or Target. Etsy Warnings: for People who think arts are going to make real cash as a back up job…
*Warning, another job rant*
Cost of knitting yarn in store: $20 cost of knitting needles, $12. Making of woven little hats to sell online 32 dollars. Customers’ ability to go to Walmart or another chain store and buy a cheaper $3 one made by robots and outsourced labor in the USA 100%. Cost of Jewelry kit 36 dollars pliers 12 dollars. Customers’ ability to buy a stronger cheaper necklace in any color of the rainbow at Walmart or another chain store for $4 in the USA 100%. It will be next to the bin of 1 dollar books and short stories from Taiwan, and the 1 bin of music CDs from India. There may be Jewelry and weaving sellers out there in the USA but they are all operating at a loss, and not paying their own rent with production. Ability for injured people who can’t stand at registers 8 hours a day to work back up jobs such as jewelry making and knitting, and selling it at the tribal or village market as happened in ancient times 0%. The true cost of globalization.
Are Blogging and Gaming the new “knitting” and “weaving” for modern day? Fingers twitch on a keyboard like needles on a string. They are popular, but not really profitable beyond pocket change. In ancient times, when people had downtime they would knit, weave, do needlepoint. Young mothers and sage shaman would place beads on moccasin shoes, knit a winter scarf, and weave a hallway banner. Ladies in Castles would go to quilting circles or practice their needlepoint. One hundred years later these objects still sit in museums.
Now it is cheaper to click buy on Amazon or go to Walmart to get these things. Weaving in home economics classes isn’t even taught in schools. With hundreds of dollars in school funded textbooks I learned perfectly how to square a trinomial in Algebra (which I have used NEVER), to type, and nothing about weaving, pottery, or woodcarving beyond the occasional day or two novelty classes. Robots weave all day long millions of goods. Teachers and school guidance councilors do not even pause at warning students about how bad the job markets are in modern day. They will give you ulcers demanding you study hard to learn job markets with no paying jobs at all. Hi tech has destroyed the need for the sewing and weaving world.
Some say that fingers typing on a keyboard replaces this ancient need. A million online dragon badges replacing a dragon tapestry in a front hall. Is this an improvement or a regression? Only time will tell.
In ancient times people respected the weaver. Medusa was a weaver transformed by the gods into a snake woman for Venus feared she was too strong and close to a god. If people were injured too badly and could not stand long hours work the plow and tend the fields they could weave. As people put on their woven winter sweater a wave of gratefulness swept over them for the weavers, and the warmth they gave. They could thank Mary and Jonathan Weaver in person. Their public work was lifesaving and seen by all. Now the store bought jacket that cost 5 dollars is thankless and earns very few Americans money. No one says that people who play PC games or type blogs are close to gods. Would Sleeping princesses have been part of dramatic stories in ancient times if instead of pricking their fingers on spinning wheels and weaving straw into gold they had typed on their keyboard with flicks of their fingers? Tiny amounts of job markets remain that are fully profitable in the USA. Competition becomes relentless and savage more by the minute. People need backup jobs beyond customer service, chain stores, and fast food more as the skills of ancient times become less profitable daily. Only time will tell this tale.