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by anderspitman 2402 days ago
I'm using it in the idiomatic English[0] sense, meaning a cheaper/inferior alternative. For any one of the examples, there are way better tools out there. But how many of those individual tools can be used to accomplish many different things?

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poor%20man%27s