Some products can be made quickly by a machine. Other items take a long time to be made by hand. As a buyer, which do you prefer and why? Give specific details and examples in your answer.

Ever since the industrial revolution,

mass

produced goods have flooded the consumer market.

Although

such

goods

have proved

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have proven

to be highly popular, it is now becoming increasingly clear that handmade goods are more desirable for modern, informed consumers. In

this

essay, I shall look at some of the ethical and quality-based reasons for

this

re-evaluation.

To begin

with, handmade goods can be made with far more care and attention to detail than

mass

produced goods.

This

is because

machines

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the machines

lack a

sensitivity

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sense

that experienced craftsman evidently possess.

For example

, a study by the International Consumerist Society found that handmade furniture, musical instruments and jewellery were consistently rated as being more attractive (by consumers) than their

mass

made counterparts.

Therefore it

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Therefore, it

is clear that buyers prefer handmade goods for reasons that relate to quality of workmanship.

Secondly

, handmade

production

companies have far more ethical attitudes towards the environment.

This

is because factories and chemical processes heavily underpin

mass

industrial

production

.

For example

the British Green Party found that the levels of toxicity and environmental damage outside handmade

production

centres were paltry compared to the levels found outside factories used for

mass

production

.

Consequently

, since modern consumers are more environmentally conscious than ever before, these findings have clearly contributed to their preference for handmade goods. In conclusion, there are compelling reasons for why modern consumers favour handmade goods. In the future, as environmental issues worsen,

this

preference will no doubt grow more pronounced.