The luddites were OG rent-seekers, skilled workers who sought to keep their products costly through the time-honored political tradition of smashing other people's stuff Keep that in mind when someone lionizes luddites and rails against cheap + widespread data/informationhttps://twitter.com/rivatez/status/1174686638431227904 …
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Indeed, and great wealth was created in the process, vast cities emerged from small impoverished towns etc. I would not have it any other way. Yet, the luddites were not seeking increase, merely a misguided attempt to preserve a way of life.
They weren't misguided. They'd spent time honing a skill and they felt entitled to make a good living doing it. If you built a machine that could do what they could do, they wanted it gone. Understandable. Selfish, but understandable. Glad they failed, unapologetically.
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It may help you to understand that I don't come from the sort of family or have the sort of education that plenty of people think entitles them to something better than I get. Understandable. But they better keep their goddamn hands off of what I'm building.
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Me neither, and I’m naturally of your point of view on this. I can also see them as individuals in an moment of immense distress. Whether I would be so sympathetic if it weren’t so close to home is an entirely different matter...
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Agreed - for clarity, I meant misguided only in the sense that they had zero chance of achieving their aims by any method within their means.
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