

It’s pretty hard when you have to also account for extra printing to conceal the item. You can render a result, but if it just looks like a box with convenient breakaway pieces that snap to leave behind just the part, you’ll need some more complex work than simple pattern matching. And even then each piece of a gun isn’t a really a unique shape only used for firearms.


Yeah, they could have managed things the slow and steady way to improve people’s lives while they were stealing from them, but they were too goddamned greedy.
To some extent philosophical arguments about what’s right, what’s fair, and what’s feasible are just academic. There’s just a limit to how much the lords can squeeze the peasants before a revolt happens, and we’re getting close. Our situation is pretty close to as bad as it’s ever been and papering over it with meaningless programs that barely help anyone aren’t enough to relax that pressure. One way or another it’s is going to be let out.
We no longer have any illusions about the robber barons just being benign people who were smart or lucky and prospered in a functioning system. A few of them know they need to give back and give back quickly, but most are just thinking about how much more they could take and people see that.