How to smash the looms today
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I test drove the first-generation Tesla Roadster. I once lived on Soylent powder shakes for a month. My Twitter account is almost old enough to drive. I wrote a book

I test drove the first-generation Tesla Roadster. I once lived on Soylent powder shakes for a month. My Twitter account is almost old enough to drive. I wrote a book about the iPhone.

Also, I’m a Luddite. That’s not the contradiction that it might sound like. The original Luddites did not hate technology. Most were skilled machine operators. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, what they objected to were the specific ways that tech was being used to undermine their status, upend their communities and destroy their livelihoods. So they took sledgehammers to the mechanized looms used to exploit them.

  • @[email protected]
    6•9 months ago

    It’s not even surprising, is it? Good ol Marx couldn’t foresee AI but could see the thorough proletarianization of us all. This is just the latest development.

    • Kasumi
      -3•9 months ago

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      • Flying Squid
        OP
        9•9 months ago

        I’m not optimistic. I’m pessimistic. But that doesn’t mean I give up.

      • WalrusDragonOnABike
        2•9 months ago

        This whole discussion seems to not be about any underlying disagreement about tech and how it can have negative impacts on society (while giving the impression that it is about that), but rather the tone of the words used to expressed the idea. You keep having to respond to people who misunderstood your intentions because you did a pretty poor job of making it clear what your disagreements with Zeth0s were, so people assumed it was disagreeing with what he said (for good reason given how you start your comment).

      • @[email protected]
        2•9 months ago

        True. I guess it’s these types that are the real accelerationists for rapidly sowing discontent via creating super efficient means of disenfranchising us all lol.