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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

guilliotines exist folks.

we dont actually need to subject ourselves to being luddites.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

luddites.

Luddites, the followers of Ned Ludd? The guys who smashed machines and went to war against the factory owners who were defending their factories with soldiers and cannons?

They're a lot more similar to the guys with guillotines than you seem to think.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Luddites got a bad rap from capitalists. The Luddites were not anti-technology, they were against technology destroying people’s jobs. Their whole thing was destroying industrial machinery and sabotaging factories because they were replacing human labor without any alternative in place for the actual people. Hundreds of thousands of people were turned off the land, unemployed, and starving because of greedy capitalists trying to not pay for labor.

If the same people were around today, they’d be trying to blow up AI server farms.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago