• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 hours ago

    That’s a convoluted answer for me. I hand sharpen knives and straight razors as a hobby. Been doing it for like 30 years and have several hundreds of dollars in diamond and wetstones. I doubt there’s 500 people in the country (US) that are better than I am at hand sharpening.

    The convoluted part is that I could charge people to sharpen knives. I just don’t want to.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      13 minutes ago

      Wise person. I got good at sharpening, and I ended up monetising it as a hobby, which I inevitably regretted

      I got good at sharpening because I had a bunch of weirdly shaped knives, like this saddler’s round knife

    • dan1101@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      If you’re good at something you shouldn’t feel bad about charging for it. A lot of the economy is based on trading money for skilled labor.