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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:29:06)
But maybe there's something in here about a rich and dominant man that might make his tools inappropriate for house-dismantling.

Let's consider a man who owns an estate, maybe a farm or ranch or something. If everything there belongs to him, does that include all the tools, too?

On a big enough property, there'd have to be tools for demolition too, right? Sledgehammers and axes and various explosives or whatever?
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:31:29)
So maybe the quote isn't talking about the tools if the whole enterprise, but the master's *personal* tools; the ones he keeps neatly in a workshop in his home. Maybe these tools would not dismantle a house. Why not, though?

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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:36:02)
One reason might be that he only does hobbyist rich guy things with these tools. Like he builds ships in a bottle, or paints birdhouses to look like the heads of American presidents. If you tried to dismantle a house with the long tweezers he uses for setting up the rigging on little bottle sloops, well, they're just not going to do the job.