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Cute Russian comic. The home of the official English version is here if anyone wants to skip ahead (or support them): https://boosty.to/gabiconomics-en
The concept of Alienation of labour is simple - when the results of labour do not belong to the worker with its further usage unrelated and invisible to workers - that result quickly becomes inconsequential, leading to worker indifference.
What kind of capital equipment does it take to start a wheel shop?
Things were a lot easier before the industrial revolution. Poor Gabby could probably never start her own textile mill.
I've literally only seen them use saws, hammers and chisels. They have some machines that I think are just for bracing the wheels while spokes are put in. Gabi and Falke built those themselves by doing night shifts in Chief's shop who was nice enough to at least let them use the machines when they weren't being used for the shop.
Apparently wheelsmiths used steam to bend the wood so that must require a special setup.
Didn't he make Gabi pay coins to use them?
Oh yeah, he might've done that...