I'm reading Maintenance of Everything and it has a section about the switch from artisan-crafted weapons to making uniform parts that feels comparable to this.
French military had pioneered a way to make fully interchangeable weapon parts, but the French public fought back in fear of the jobs of the artisans who used to hand-make weapons. Over the next 20 years they completely lost their edge on the battlefield, nothing could be repaired in the field. Other countries embraced the change, could repair anything in the field with cheap and precise spare parts, and soon fostered in the industrial revolution.
The artisans stopped being people who made weapons, the artisans became people who made machines that made weapons.
> The artisans stopped being people who made weapons, the artisans became people who made machines that made weapons.
Although many French artisans become unemployed because British industrial productivity made them uncompetitive. It was one of the causes of the French Revolution.
French military had pioneered a way to make fully interchangeable weapon parts, but the French public fought back in fear of the jobs of the artisans who used to hand-make weapons. Over the next 20 years they completely lost their edge on the battlefield, nothing could be repaired in the field. Other countries embraced the change, could repair anything in the field with cheap and precise spare parts, and soon fostered in the industrial revolution.
The artisans stopped being people who made weapons, the artisans became people who made machines that made weapons.