shoemaker

A medium of exchange is something a shoemaker can use to obtain bread from a baker who doesn't want shoes.

Each shoemaker used to be proud of his shoes, even though there are not so many different ways to make them.

No one born after the popularization of shoemaking machines studied to become a shoemaker.

Just like a baker wouldn't go hungry and a shoemaker will have shoes.

Despite the obvious economic gains of mass-production, the factory system produced shoes without the individual differentiation that the traditional shoemaker was able to provide.

It seems pretty obvous to me that a local shoemaker earning $1-2/hr stands a fair chance of competing with imported chinese shoes at $5/pair...

This always disturbs me that only a handful people make it big such as Shoemaker while the rest of the population sample barely make ends meet.

I saw the analogy in some book: imagine there is a shoemaker, who has no access to good materials and good tools.

This is a classic case of barefoot shoemaker.

So - speaking of economy to which there's more than meets the eye - these are local suppliers too, indirectly benefiting from the fact that local shoemaker imported nails.

I also believe based on much observation that the difference between $1-2/hr and $<<1/hr that the out-of-work shoemaker in poor countries might be earning is enormous...

Ten years from now, after earning a decent living wage for 10 years and acquiring experience and reputation, the same shoemaker could add a bit of mechanisation and still compete with $5 chinese shoes.

Those guys like Shoemaker who have an almost cult following end up making an empire on those in the "pyramid" below them.

Slightly more easily recognizable version might be "the shoemaker's children have no shoes".

Yes Shoemaker does both well - however beyond the superstars, there's a huge network of "how to make money online" websites/people whos income dwarfs those who are actually practicing the concepts.

I'm a moonlighter shoemaker, and I don't spend zilch on (not sure how to define these things!) "techno tools." My most recent advanced gadget-related purchases have been: * A set of 18 shoemaking tools, second hand.

How do we do double-blind random crossover trials of a comet crashing into Jupiter (like Shoemaker–Levy 9)?

The most dramatic I learned immediately, in the first semester of freshman year, in a class taught by Sydney Shoemaker.