No, it was a targetted movement where they believed the technological advances were replacing good jobs with little benefit to the community. I don’t know the details but I believe they accepted new technologies when it was displacing dangerous labour. I imagine it’s not dissimilar to discussions we’re having right now about more or less the same issues!
Yep, and they didn’t destroy machines belonging to owners who weren’t dicks. It was against using new tech to immiserate artisans, not against the new tech itself. It may have been bad tactics, but the motivations were good.
Apparently they just didn’t want their labor replaced with machines so they’d be out of the job, but the propaganda (“tHeY jUsT oPpOsE pRoGrEsS”) is the story that survived within the imperial core.
So there is actually a strong analogue here with actors and writers not wanting to be replaced with LLM chatbot or image-generative AIs. Adam actually is a Luddite, in a sense, and it seems weird to me that some cringelib is clamoring for something that will replace them as well, they just don’t know it yet.
Yeah, but they teach us he was bad without explaining why he did what he did aside from a vague “He hated machines”
I was led to believe the luddites were like the Amish and they had like, a religious opposition to technology.
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No, it was a targetted movement where they believed the technological advances were replacing good jobs with little benefit to the community. I don’t know the details but I believe they accepted new technologies when it was displacing dangerous labour. I imagine it’s not dissimilar to discussions we’re having right now about more or less the same issues!
Yep, and they didn’t destroy machines belonging to owners who weren’t dicks. It was against using new tech to immiserate artisans, not against the new tech itself. It may have been bad tactics, but the motivations were good.
Apparently they just didn’t want their labor replaced with machines so they’d be out of the job, but the propaganda (“tHeY jUsT oPpOsE pRoGrEsS”) is the story that survived within the imperial core.
So there is actually a strong analogue here with actors and writers not wanting to be replaced with LLM chatbot or image-generative AIs. Adam actually is a Luddite, in a sense, and it seems weird to me that some cringelib is clamoring for something that will replace them as well, they just don’t know it yet.
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there never actually was a Ned Ludd he’s a folk story