On Teenage Luddites

Re:On Teenage Luddites by yesbut on Friday December 16, 2022 @03:29PM (#34019886)

A Luddite was "a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woollen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16)." They weren't anti-technology. They were anti-"having their jobs replaced by machines".

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Re:On Teenage Luddites by aidenn0 on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:30PM (#34022105)

> broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change

1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Luddite

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Re:On Teenage Luddites by yesbut on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:52PM (#34022322)

Hopefully abandoning the smartphone might result in these kids picking up Das Kapital at the Brooklyn library.

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Re:On Teenage Luddites by UncleEntity on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:43PM (#34023333)

Sure, because the communists are well known for their rejection of tracking technology…

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Re:On Teenage Luddites by Kaibeezy on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:29PM (#34024237)

Or Progress and Poverty.

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Re:On Teenage Luddites by cyber_kinetist on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:41PM (#34024339)

By the way, you can view and download almost all of Marx’s works for free in the Marxists Archive! (marxists.org) Probably the advent of the Internet and smartphones have increased access to these works.

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Re:On Teenage Luddites by cercatrova on Saturday December 17, 2022 @12:40AM (#34025133)

Or Capital in the 21st Century

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