Imagine a small town with a very active club of cardboard box makers. The club members make and supply cardboard boxes for the town's people and the people are mostly happy with that. There are some other box suppliers, but their boxes are not recyclable and are actually closed, so you can't put your Garmin GPS in one of those boxes. You need an open box to do that and the Cardboard Box Club makes such boxes.

This club forms a small community of box makers, most of them are crafts people who make the boxes as a hobby. Each of these boxes is a little different, some boxes have round corners or strange sizes or aren't exactly cubic, because they are hand-made. Now the people in the town can cope with imperfect boxes but they would prefer standard sized boxes with no variations, so they can efficiently store things in them. In fact most of the community are people who had a need for good cardboard boxes, but couldn't find ones that would satisfy their needs anywhere, so they decided to do something about it and joined the club.

Now not all boxes in the world are hand-made. There are industrial machines (more automated or less automated) that can make perfect boxes in large quantities and some people in the club know about them. Many of the club members were disillusioned when they first learnt about the useful machines that made the boxes of the same size as they had been making personally, and had been regretting the time they put into doing it manually when they could be perfecting the craft of operating such a machine. They know that the users of their boxes would have been happier too.

Of course not all of the machines are perfect, some (like the model called PANTHER) are more sloppy than human box makers, but still very fast.

However there is a couple of members in the club who make every effort to discourage the usage of the box-making machines and instead prefer doing it manually and that everyone else also does it manually. One of their arguments is that operating the machines isn't as engaging as doing it manually and the club's community would fall apart. There is however a community of box making machine operators that is good friends with the club, sometimes even the makers of these machines come to the club meetings to socialise.

Despite this anti-automatic-box-making minority, some people are already using machines to make their boxes, and the users of the boxes seem happy. Some of the clubbers even made robots that wander around the club room and fix some of the imperfections of the boxes made by the beginner box makers.

There is however one of the anti-automatic-box-making clubbers who went as far as saying that all of the Australian machine-made cardboard boxes should be burnt or recycled, even taking them away from people who have already stored some of their Garmin GPSes in those boxes, and subsequently re-made manually. He is generally of the opinion that manual box making should be the only way to make boxes in the club, and if the cardboard's period of bio-degradation is shorter, then all the better because the club will have more boxes to make. He also encourages some of the members to leave the club and start their own so that the clubs can compete against one another, and the losing club's boxes all go to waste.