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We do not want our labour stolen. We want to labour less, and we want to be fairly compensated for when we have to labour. The Luddites and the original sabote
by halostatue 3y ago
We do not want our labour stolen. We want to labour less, and we want to be fairly compensated for when we have to labour.
The Luddites and the original saboteurs (from the French sabot) had a problem where the capital class invested in machines that let them (a) get more work done per person, (b) employ fewer people, and (c) pay those fewer people less because now they weren't working as hard. The people they fired? They (and the governments of the day — just like now) basically told them to go starve.
> The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers which
> opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving machinery, and often destroyed the
> machines in clandestine raids. They protested against manufacturers who used machines
> in "a fraudulent and deceitful manner" to replace the skilled labour of workers and
> drive down wages by producing inferior goods.[1][2] Members of the group referred to
> themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of "Ned Ludd", a legendary weaver
> whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and
> government officials.[3]
Yes, we want to work less. But fair work should result in fair compensation. Ultimately, this is something that the copyright washing of current commercialized LLMs cannot achieve.