• Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    According to the article the clay manufacturer isn’t shuttering due to lack of business but because the owners want to retire and can’t find somebody to take it over. Seems odd to me.

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      1 year ago

      Since I don’t think there is a lot money to make in the clay businesses, it makes sense that it’s not easy to find a successor - since he would have to be in for the fun of it and not for money.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I too am in the material arts. I do it because I love it and I make a living. Although sometimes you get paid like a parking meter, a nickle an hour. Anyone in the clay business probably already has a clay business. They need some halfwit with “a passion for clay” to happen by and buy it and then go tits up two years later because they can’t service the debt they took to “live their dream”.