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Whatever their motivation, their ire is misguided and selfish. Is the world supposed to just sit and around and never innovate or try to become more productive?
by mitchdoogle 4y ago
Whatever their motivation, their ire is misguided and selfish. Is the world supposed to just sit and around and never innovate or try to become more productive? So people can have a job doing work better done by machines? I don't think so. The Luddites and any such analogs today are focused on the wrong thing - they should not attack new technology or the companies and individuals using them, but rather campaign for better social safety net from the government.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoMaybe new technology should be restricted by default until regulation can catch up with it. I'm not sure, but the 'cheap shirts benefit everybody too much to pump the brakes' argument for unfettered innovation leaves me deeply unimpressed. IMHO the best argument for unfettered innovation is the impossibility of slowing innovation globally; it can be slowed in one country, but that country can't force all the rest to get with that program and will eventually be overtaken by technologically superior foes.
- anigbrowl 4y agoA valid point, but restrictions are often used to build or fortify fiefdoms.