thinking that a cobbler in the Middle Ages or a plumber in the 19th century lived their entire lives surrounded by tools made unambiguously to best serve their needs and nothing else, while we have to spend our lives with actively adversarial tools. tools made to trick and cheat us, tool with casino gambling tricks, tools designed to be hard to repair or to break quickly, on purpose. we live our lives surrounded by objects that hold hate and contempt for us.