Almost made another comment correcting myself, should have said "money & machine tools" - my default is just to take money out of the equation when trying to explain things, but here the point was really to talk about what money enables.

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But the machine tools (and ability to save & acquire them) are what make boat & winch & hoist production possible.

It's layers & layers of specialization & innovation & production enabling lots of real savings (capital accumulation) that enable the extension of the key areas of production that enabled the savings in the first place.