Re:'Hey Number 17 '
by krapp on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:46AM
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Many people, like the Luddites, saw through the con ages ago. But people will still parrot the lie that technology and automation (AI in the modern context) will free the working class to live lives of intellectual pursuit and leisure to this day, when the goal of both is the opposite.
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> Luddites
A group who, contrary to popular belief, were not 'anti-technology'.
The fact they campaigned for unemployment support and re-training for workers displaced by the new technologies probably makes the Luddites amongst the most forward thinking and progressive people of the industrial revolution!