This comic convincingly delivers a lot of half baked misplaced blamed for societal problems. Luddism harms workers. We know this because sometimes Luddism succe

This comic convincingly delivers a lot of half baked misplaced blamed for societal problems. Luddism harms workers. We know this because sometimes Luddism succeeds. Chinese artisan guilds were more powerful than their English Luddite counterparts during the industrial revolution, and successfully prevented new technologies from taking hold there. As a result, they avoided England's growing pains, while condemning themselves and their children to lower economic growth and far more abject poverty. There's a much healthier way to deal with the growing pains: redistribution. When the return on capital is higher than the return on labor, we're being failed by our tax regime. Redistributing gains means everyone benefits. Destroying machinery means everyone loses. The weird tangents about AI art and phones for children are also dishonest. Copyright law and healthy child rearing are pretty orthogonal to job automation. Ultimately, any society that chooses the path of Luddism will defeat itself, because there will always be another society that embraces technology, and they will not be subject to your regulations, and they will outcompete you, and I want to live in that society.