Post #2773933
2026-02-07 01:41 UTC
@vie@hachyderm.io
The hand-tool artisans look down on the users of power tools, with some justice. But it could be that the two sets of people have different goals.
For the artisans, it is the process itself. The constructed artifact exists primarily to embody the care and skill that went into its construction.
For the power-tools user, perhaps their goal is a shelf to store the books they were able to read because of the time they did not spend in the workshop.
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@alex@gotosocial.theonecurly.page 2026-02-07 12:37
@vie@hachyderm.io @lain_7@tldr.nettime.org The artisan knows a good tool when they see one and if it were useful and truely labor saving they'd be using it. Poor metaphore that presupposes utility and ignores the critism of a group of experts.