“Are Knife Snobs Ruining the Multitool World”?

Monday 18th August, 2025 - Bruce Sterling

*I like these moral-crisis videos about the supposed threat of pocket jewelry. From an Italian perspective they really sound funny.

https://youtu.be/yrucw1Dx77c?si=c4JPzTGk4vrj-cQO

Is there a market for Leatherman tools that cost a thousand dollars (or more)? Yes, that’s a collectors’ market, and it’s quite old and well-established.

Many years ago one of Abraham Lincoln’s pocket knives sold at auction for a hundred thousand dollars.