Fine, fine sub “middle class” for “almost everybody”
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Missed an important one. Matches (and lighters, flint/steel etc) twitter.com/gridinoc/statu
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Not sure shoes belong on the list. Yes they’re a fairly sophisticated tech, but they’re actually in-use continuously as clothing, not just carried as an optionality widget.
Also excluding jewellery and religious/magical objects that serve no practical purpose. twitter.com/JerseyanUSA/st
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Keys are a big one I missed.
Tobacco type things (also hip flasks, chewing gum), hmm... mood-altering tech. Kinda borderline, but I think they qualify.
Photos of people... I think out. They’re not tech. Same as crucifixes or charms, just personal. 🤔 twitter.com/arborrito/stat
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Hmm. Belts are an interesting case. In the form of a sash or cummerbund, they’re just a variant on the towel theme, but the leather buckled kind perhaps qualifies. Kinda unit asked though, unless you make it a platform by adding apps like holsters, scabbards, etc.
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Hmm. Money as ultimate social tech multitool 🤔
Swiss-army knife of consensual microeconomic stabbings
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Water containers? I guess leather waterskins yes, and perhaps modern bottles, but not pots. That’s cargotech, not primal widget-tech.
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Hmm. Illumination tech: torches, candles, lanterns, flashlights.
A bit too specialized for my taste, but they’re now in primal widget land as part of the phone and sometimes keychains
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Left out firearms because they were/are everyday carry only in very specific times/places unlike bladed weapons which were much more common.
Also, the American tacticool mall ninja EDC culture built around firearms annoys me as poisoning a generally fun aspect of human life
