Reasons why digitalizing the craft culture is pessimistic:
This development opens door to infinite options, and significantly increases the opportunity cost for the artisans. While this might be an advantage in most cases, however, in this situation it confuses the artist in many aspects, when they’re faced with myriad options, their hesitation is reflected in their work immediately. This hesitation can be in a form or mistakes, error, biasness etc. Their artworks could become repetitive and lack imagination, which could result in less creativity being produced. Moreover, digital work is vulnerable to theft and malware, even the strongest anti-virus and malware software have a very small percentage of uncertainty.
Roxana Boitel, (2019), “Famous paintings are being reproduced and altered by graphic designers and computer hackers at an increasing rate.”
It isn’t practical or arguably only partially practical as the full implementation of it would only be possible in first world countries with huge private/public funds to spare. Eg: USA has only a very small percentage of primary sector businesses and are 100% digitally infused. For countries that operate in the primary and/or secondary sector almost completely would face a huge debt, both financially and economically. Eg.: Bangladesh has a huge production and artisans’ community that cannot afford to benefit from the digitalization of the work environment, rather they are vulnerable to the negative impacts caused by it.
High unemployment: digitalization at work results in a huge number of workers being redundant and a possible economic crisis. The contradictory statement used for this claim is “more jobs are made”, the new job slots that open up are less than the job slots being closed, so the unemployment factor stays. E.g.: initially 5 workers altogether work on the jewelry designing and sketching before the production process, after software introduction, all 5 workers are made redundant and one IT technician and a software expert has been hired, 3 jobs were lost anyway.
This proves that digitalization for traditional craftsmen would be inadvisable, as they are recognized for processing skills and makes it impractical. Digitalization cancels out the process work involved, making the whole point of handwork useless.
