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The luddites get a bad rap these days, but we need more of them.
by thfuran 1y ago
The luddites get a bad rap these days, but we need more of them.
- Alex_Notchenko 1y agoif you want to learn more about modern luddites check out "This Machine Kills" podcast and to some extent Ed Zitron / Cory Doctorow Blogs, might be a good place to start. Political-Economic analysis of technology is not super popular thing in a mainstream media, but disabling, sabotaging or vandalising anti-human tech might be.
- genewitch 1y ago> Industrial Society and its future Like this?
- sroussey 1y agoWe need engineers to be politicians, not cable news taking heads
- dcow 1y agoThis is the only answer.
- simianparrot 1y agoSo like Elon Musk? And don't give me the "no true scotsman" argument.
- yusina 1y agoAnd what makes you believe that engineers have more morals than cable news folks have? Does not match my experience. Most of them got into tech because it's fun and because it pays royaly. Morals have little to do with that for lots of folks.
- chipsrafferty 1y agoOne could even argue that people who are seeking fun and profitable activities over socially beneficial and less profitable activities are far more likely to have less concern for the harmful effects of their actions.
- yusina 1y agoThat's indeed my observation too, in general but also in tech in particular, but I didn't want to straight put insult the typical HN commenter as I'm sure there are also lots of moral individuals around here.