Productive capital in the form of a sewing machine.
And not just any sewing machine, but an old one from before planned obsolescence was invented. A heavy noisy indestructible machine from the early 70′s with exactly 3 plastic parts.
I was informed that the machine has been working excellently for four decades, but once those parts break it’ll be gone.
I informed the person about the existence of a phenomenon known as 3d-printing.
It’s fascinating how sufficiently new technology gives new life to sufficiently old technology.
Old-time values were crap but they did know how to make some material things properly.
It has no fancy electronic operating systems or insecure Internet of Shit features. Just mechanical goodness.
If I’m going to have it controlled by a computer, it’ll be running a custom set of servos and shit anyway.
And because it has maintenance hatches revealing access to all the parts, and easy aparttakeability and repairability and con- and outfigureability alike, I’m probably going to have a braingasm when I figure out what exact kind of a Babbagean engine it has outputting the fancy sewing patterns. Because it has them.
This is a perfect hacker sewing machine. One might say it’s the Thinkpad of sewing machines.
(Another thing it has in common with Thinkpads: lugging around four of these will hurt your back, and is not recommended.)
These particular things are pretty much impossible to find on the market; they are known to be so excellent that nobody is willing to give them up.
I pre-inherited one, which is the best form of inheriting because nobody has to die. Nepotism yay!
(This is a good sewing machine, but I’m not convinced it’s quite worth anyone dying over. It does get closer than most things, but nah.
(Or, when I think about it, if someone were to try to expropriate my sewing machine as a piece of productive capital owned by a corporation, it would be worth that someone dying over.))
Gotta see if you can get it to work with punchcards tho
(I know that’s not a sewing machine, but close enough)
FUCK
NOW I’M GOING TO BE THINKING ALL NIGHT ABOUT THE SPECIFIC SETUP OF CAMS AND GEARS AND SHIT THAT WOULD TOTALLY MAKE IT RUN ON PUNCHCARDS
