How much can one attribute the skill of the worker to the tools available to them?

A hatchet can cut down a tree or kill a man. Do I attribute either action to the hatchet?

I see the forces as more or less balancing, while there are many other aspects that have happened in the same space of time.

I would argue that authoritarianism and neo feudalism are the inevitable outcome of the shift to venture capital, although the alternative of a military spending based economy is worse.