The machine didn't take your craft. You gave it up

The essay argues that modern craftspeople who abandon their craft in favor of efficient machines reveal their own misplaced values, not a systemic tragedy. It rejects the Marxist concept of alienation, asserting that no external system can strip a person of genuine passion, and that blaming tools or markets is a denial of individual agency. The author contends that Marx's true objection was not capitalism itself but the autonomous individual it enables.