The key take-away for me after watching this video is to not prematurely jump to conclusions. I stopped right after the team photo praising the teamwork first time around. While impressed by the teamwork and skills of manual labor, I was unimpressed by the roughness of the forged product. Only after reading some of the comments here did I realize that was not the end of the story. More stills at the end of the video show that the end product after further milling is indeed high quality to tight spec.
I feel like this experience of making a premature judgement may have some relevance to understanding China stories in general. The crudeness of some of the implements fit with my pre-conceived bias that the product was not going to be high quality, even though the skills of the labor involved should have alerted me that there should be sufficient value-add to justify the investment in said skills. I even thought this was some weird craftsmanship demo.
I feel like this experience of making a premature judgement may have some relevance to understanding China stories in general. The crudeness of some of the implements fit with my pre-conceived bias that the product was not going to be high quality, even though the skills of the labor involved should have alerted me that there should be sufficient value-add to justify the investment in said skills. I even thought this was some weird craftsmanship demo.