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If history is any indicator, the last group of middle class professionals who decided to take this question into their own hands ended up getting executed by th
by heavyset_go 4y ago
If history is any indicator, the last group of middle class professionals who decided to take this question into their own hands ended up getting executed by the state or exiled to penal colonies[1].
The rest of them, and their families, ended up dying in utter destitution. That's what "we" will probably do again.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite#Government_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite#Government_response
- kibwen 4y agoWhen will ChatGPT replace C-suite executives, I wonder? Just think of the savings!
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- whimsicalism 4y agoyou are free to not use the technology. the luddites went burning down other people's factories, so not super surprising to me that the state responded with force.
- imtringued 4y agoBut people don't use the word "Luddite" as some sort of worker protesting for the sake of vengeance at the government that abandoned them. People talk as if Luddites were some backwards people, that failed to adopt technology and died because they couldn't adapt. If being a Luddite involves a civil war, it is no longer an argument in favor of never questioning technological progress.
- heavyset_go 4y agoAnd the Sons of Liberty threw other people's tea in the Boston harbor. They were free to buy tea elsewhere. The state made machine breaking a capital crime. That is, if you break or destroy a machine, you can be executed. Many who were tried and convicted of machine breaking were accused or guilty by association, or literally broke machines, and were executed. States responded with death and contempt, not merely force.