I think OP is talking about the Luddite movement and not the caricaturised notion of Luddites that gets used as a Return To Monke slur.
There’s a reason why the common conceptualisation of the Luddites is “Technological progress bad” and, shockingly, that’s because liberals always divorce class struggle from politics reflexively because it’s critical to maintaining their worldview.
The actual Luddite movement wasn’t “technology bad” it was “We don’t want to become unemployed because our jobs were automated away and the factory owners and government would let us starve to death, and we’re going to protest that by destroying the machines that would destroy us to harm the capitalists”
Are you serious
The Luddites were based
Yes people have been gaslighting the fuck out of me with this “AI” bullshit
The Luddites were infantilized despite having extremely valid concerns (and what do you know they were fucking right)
I think OP is talking about the Luddite movement and not the caricaturised notion of Luddites that gets used as a Return To Monke slur.
There’s a reason why the common conceptualisation of the Luddites is “Technological progress bad” and, shockingly, that’s because liberals always divorce class struggle from politics reflexively because it’s critical to maintaining their worldview.
Why so serious
The actual Luddite movement wasn’t “technology bad” it was “We don’t want to become unemployed because our jobs were automated away and the factory owners and government would let us starve to death, and we’re going to protest that by destroying the machines that would destroy us to harm the capitalists”
Right but that mentality doesn’t describe AI skeptics it describes people who are against AI