>>64141299
Not really, stone axes were mass produced during the stone age by having craftsmen specialise in harvesting, rough breaking and polishing and even back then they made it so efficient they could export their axes all over and turn out a profit, in a very low technology environment. They didn't even know about metal.

Think of it like Ford, cars had existed before him and they were made on demand by highly skilled craftsmen in well equipped workshops, one at a time. The technology was there, but Ford came up with a different organisation of labor to make economies of scale.

The same was true for guns too btw, they used to be made by hand and were not really standardised. The effort required to make sure they all had the same caliber, or even interchangeable parts was simply not worth it.