Technology's weak point is the ability to calculate real cost.
And anyway the cost is 'A LOT' since it pulls in just about all the other resources and sciences to get done making it superior but fragile (like a Lamborghini used on different terrain... looks nice and work occasionally super but bit of different terrain and the Lambo fails pretty quick.
When you have so many chains, factories, parts for factories, factories for factories... quite possibility it shifts the cost and hides it (man hides it from other man in a forever nested process inside another).
And then if that cost is at the beginning to the end arbitrary (set by man to whatever it wants for others to abide by) this means primitive technology probably wins long-term as it has less fault points and less extended bridges to get to a final product
So while natural / primitive products are 'poor' compared to space-aged type tech, actually it's a bit more honest (planet based) and not nesting things or moving the cards from one side to the other to pretend it words.
(e.g. one Japanese company stopping to make specific parts / O-rings might well stop many oil rigs from operating... and no oil means no life)
You could pick many parts and you could stop a car or industry from working almost 100%.
So while nature or primitive technology doesn't get the job done 100% and isn't superior now, in the future it would at leat work 100% (with will power) compared to say a inoperable factory or broken down vehicle and no bigger vehicle to take care of the small.
Kind of Mad Max film or Primitive Technology..
(see link below)...
https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
@GustavinoBevilacqua
Tech Tools are like this ....
Many things inside too many more things...
Losing track of values and costs.
Then wrapping it with yet another layer,
Fragile or Snowball Dependency
Yes!
Even if you can make gears "by hand" (not using electrical or steam or water powered machines) you still have to rely on some other tools, like in this video.
@raimondaslapinskas
Not clear to me exactly how it benefits beyond things capable people were doing in all sciences... because you can use algorithms and computing power to do unneeded / bullshit stuff as well as 1 or 2 things tht 'might' help (arguably computers have topped out as useful)... So we can do with less computers (or just staying at the level we're at t save argument)... You might not accept me saying these toys are cheating the planet and people.
But feel free to give example with this post in mind.
Life basically doesn't need to depending on the most tech-iest most complicated versions and branches of everything...
The same way we don't / didn't too need many of these things before to live (we DID do it before in a simpler way and now as I see it just stacked things on top using the cheating / hidden stuff...)
Even if it took more time to do things at least you had to do it 'by your hand' mostly or your thinking... and bigger stuff was possible with community (even digging) which I prefer over computers and big machines (now we have computer and near-0 community)
We fuck up shit way too fast and the time and effort needed to do bigger things manually is a good double check to 'is this actually worth digging / fucking up'.
We could do things 'techier / faster' but at huge energy / planetary cost and power / resource depletion (for almost every day things like going to shops)... the same way we do things today is the same in 5 years I could do using 'faster' and using more metal, oil, materials, electricity, etc etc for 'helpful' technology that we should possibly do more ourself (rather than the other way around with Tech doing it all which I feel you might be thinking)
And like I said in my previous post before this, fragile dependency is not worth that dependency AT ALL - you start using oil to pump water (instead of another way) and you start losing already... wasting and cheating the wrong parts of planet and for arguably 0 use is just incrementing future crisis disaster by leveraging computers etc... (water taken from nearby villages for your computing power / data centres - not good and direct result shows you what happens).
Increasing later fragile or snowball levels, is not my interest.
I respect how much bad work it does in the end to accept reduction from NOW (with a bit of tech kept).
@freeschool
Another hidden cost is that of tools: without wrenches and screwdrivers you can't assemble a Lamborghini, even having all the parts on the table.