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Der_Einzigeyesterday at 5:07 PM4 repliesview on HN

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mbgerringyesterday at 5:18 PM

You can reject the ideas in the aggregate. Regardless, for the individual, your skills are being devalued, and what used to be a reliable livelihood tied to a real craft is going to disappear within a decade or so. Best of luck

oblioyesterday at 11:23 PM

> The historical luddites are literally the human death drive externalized. Reject them and all of their garbage ideas with extreme prejudice.

Yes, because fighting for the rights of laborers is obviously what most people hate.

goatloveryesterday at 6:56 PM

For a different perspective:

"Except the Luddites didn’t hate machines either—they were gifted artisans resisting a capitalist takeover of the production process that would irreparably harm their communities, weaken their collective bargaining power, and reduce skilled workers to replaceable drones as mechanized as the machines themselves."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/06/the-luddites-wer...

takklobyesterday at 6:28 PM

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