if you've read Homer HIckam's autobiography, you've recognized that boy scouts and shop class sit on a cultural axis, which is resilient to mass poverty. the major technological difference is that the children of Hickam's time no longer yearn for the hazardous mines, or shop at the company store. such enterprises can be teleoperated, both in practice and capitalization. https://x.com/patfscott/status/2026300106417311767?s=20