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But an awful lot of households do have electric drills and apparently the average one gets less use than yours. Mine certainly does. Whatever the exact number of minutes-per-lifetime, you're gonna have difficulty persuading me that every single household of all the 8 billion people on earth needs its own electric drill and that there's not a better way of organizing things.
And that's my whole point: America's hyper-consumerist comfort-oriented lifestyle, where everyone has a closet overflowing with semi-useless junk, where talking to one's neighbor is a waste of precious time, is just not a realistic goal for a sustainable civilization. Nor even particularly desirable, I'd say. Again: please don't take this personally, I'm criticizing a whole system and I too have an electric drill (though not a Sawzall, whatever that is).