Saturday, August 17, 2024

Losing Traction


Farmers in the mid-West up in arms with having machinery lie unemployed for sake of a chip to fix one or other component, to the extent they're ordering copy-cats online from Eastern Europe to avoid two-hundred mile round trips to dealerships. Raised in an age when you could fix points with a nail-file or sub fan-belts with stockings, it is hard for me not to agree with the view that complex systems are prone to collapse.