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This is a good point. When has breaking stuff and disrupting productivity as a form of protest ever worked? It’s not like battles are fought with violence. The
by jrflowers 1y ago
This is a good point. When has breaking stuff and disrupting productivity as a form of protest ever worked? It’s not like battles are fought with violence. They are fought through people doing Policy in their heads, which sort of just naturally becomes Policy out in the world on its own.
- suthakamal 1y agoI'm not saying protest doesn't work. I'm saying rejecting technology never has.
- jrflowers 1y agoThat isn’t what luddites did though. I wrote my earlier post quite a while after several other folks clearly and eloquently explained that in response to your post. I figured you would’ve been up to speed about tactics vs goals vis a vis the luddites by the time you got to that post
- suthakamal 1y agothat their attempts to change policy didn't work doesn't mean that changing policy is the wrong objective, merely that their tactics failed.