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Kuyawatoday at 1:37 PM4 repliesview on HN

Luddites have existed since the dawn of times:

  "We're not going to use tractors to plow the fields"
  "We're not going to use trucks to deliver our produce"
  "We're not going to use planes to meet with our global partners"
  "We're not going to use computers to run our business"
  "We're not going to open a web shop, brick and mortar forever"
  "We're not going to use AI to make decisions for us"

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callmealtoday at 2:42 PM

>Luddites have existed since the dawn of times:

Pet peeve - luddites had never been against technology. They had been against using low paid inexperienced grunt workers to displace well paid experts.

See: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...

    As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”
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podgietarutoday at 6:55 PM

Were those actual complaints? Maybe the first, maybe the brick and mortar? Who was saying we will never use planes??

pvab3today at 1:57 PM

this has some pretty extreme selection bias though. You could just as easily say

"We're not going to wear Google Glass"

"We're not going to use Blockchain for every single transaction"

"We're not going to connect every single object and device we have to IoT"

physicallyIllfrtoday at 2:04 PM

Im assigning you some reading homework today (or have you totally offloaded your ability to read to LLMs too)?

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/r...

And why are the people calling people Luddite some of the least intelligent people I meet, and seem to be complete sheep fighting some psychological war on behalf of their billionaire lords who own the machinery.

Not wanting to hand off all your labor to a machine does not make you a luddite, nor should it be acceptable to call people that because you dont know how to have a real conversation.

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