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> This isn't some emotional or fashionable thing, they're tools, so you'd have to assume they derive $1000 of value.

This is not born out in my personal experience at all. In my experience, both in the physical and software tool worlds, people are incredibly emotional about their tools. There are _deep_ fashion dynamics within tool culture as well. I mean, my god, editors are the prima donna of emotional fashion running roughshod over the developer community for decades.

There was a reason it was called "Tool Time" on Home Improvement.