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You should actually read up on the Luddites. Their main goal was better treatment of workers; smashing machines was just their preferred means of protest. The i
by PhasmaFelis 10y ago
You should actually read up on the Luddites. Their main goal was better treatment of workers; smashing machines was just their preferred means of protest. The image of the backwards anti-tech fetishist was a propaganda smear by the industrialists at the time, which was so successful that people are still buying it now.
- tdb7893 10y agoI have already been told this many times in the past (firstly when I learned about them originally from my history teacher). I need a new word for people that irrationally fear technology but technophobe just looks weird to me.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoSo you know it's wrong, but you keep doing it? Aren't you doing exactly the same thing as the industrialists who slandered the Luddites? You're reducing the real welfare of thousands of workers and their families to "oh, they're scared of technology, just ignore the silly primitives."