In the context of lifehacks, the direction of the communication is the website telling an individual "you can do this with your labor, your tools and $n in mone

In the context of lifehacks, the direction of the communication is the website telling an individual "you can do this with your labor, your tools and $n in money." In these "microscrope-for-a-dollar" posts, the communication context is different. It's misleading a mass audience that these devices can actually be made for the amount. There is no implicit assumption of the individual user of the microscope doing the labor nor using their own tools. The same holds true in my analogies.