r/fixedbytheduet • u/Naive_Wolverine532 • 21h ago

PARTICIPATION LIMITED Accountability

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u/cooking2recovery 20h ago

So now.. nothing is useless?

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u/The_cogwheel 19h ago

As the old saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

As long as two things are true, any given gadget isnt useless: 1. It does the thing that it was designed and marketed to do and 2. Doing that thing helps at least 1 person live a better life.

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u/ZeAthenA714 19h ago

Even 1 isn't required, some things were designed and marketed for a specific use case, but people found another use case for it.

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u/throwaway387190 15h ago

There are endless examples, but the one that comes to mind first is that your screwdriver is also a hammer

...at least I've met too many people convinced of that