2025-08-03 17:49 UTC
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@rebeld@mstdn.ca 2025-08-10 12:57
@weyoun6@kolektiva.social @jensorensen@mastodon.social Exactly! Luddism is good, great and much needed actually! The assessment of new technologies and their adoption based on the economic and environmental harms they will cause for those they will impact? Sign me up!
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@NovaNaturalist@mstdn.ca 2025-08-10 13:07
@weyoun6@kolektiva.social @jensorensen@mastodon.social 💯 Capitalists have promoted the idea that Luddites were anti-tech for its own sake, in fact they were against capitalists using tech to replace and impoverish people. But they had few options for protest. "Machine-breaking was one of the very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, undermine lower-paid competing workers, and create solidarity among workers". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite