The “Amazon Effect” on Our Brains
Most people expect handmade items to be cheap because mass production has hidden the true cost of labor. Large corporations use massive machinery, buy materials in multi-million-unit bulk orders, and often rely on incredibly low-wage factory labor to spit out identical items by the thousands. Are we so used to seeing those rock-bottom prices, we accidentally use them as the benchmark for everything? Continue reading The True Cost of “Handmade” (A Sermon from the Overlords)