When did you realize that the Luddites did nothing wrong?

>>2829199
>The group was protesting the use of machinery in a "fraudulent and deceitful manner" to get around standard labour practices. Luddites feared that the time spent learning the skills of their craft would go to waste as machines would replace their role in the industry.
neo-luddites when?

>>2829222
It's already happening

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When I read Kaczynski

>>2829199
They may not have done anything wrong, but they did experience some significant opportunity costs they were unaware of.

>>2829199
they get a bad rap because theyve been mythologized as "le dumb werkers stopping tecnological process of civilization XDD", which quite blatantly promotes a narrative that little guys have no right to stick up for their interests because they're hurting society. in reality though they were not really machine breakers. machine breaking was only one of many tactics they used to protest eroding standards of living caused by recession and erosion of purchasing power due to inflation, both of which had a root cause in fighting the napoleonic wars. it was also a symptom of the start of explosive population growth that characterized 19th century england and the strains this growth placed on what provisions there were for the impoverished as enshrined in the poor laws of the late 1790s. the luddites didn't care so much about machines than what they thought was unfair pay from the capitalists, which is why in general they tended to not discriminate between machine sabotage, property damage of other sorts, striking and intimidating their bosses with beatings, riots or just threats of violence.

>>2829199
When I realized that the popular image of a Luddite as somebody who scorns technological achievement was a meme: what Luddites were actually protesting was an economic system where all of the boosts to productivity go as rewards to the wealthiest members of society and leave the workers behind.

>>2829199

Reminds me of Princess Mononoke, so thats cool.

Anti-technological politics is going to be the big, revolutionary political idea of the 21st century, sort of how socialism was in the 19th

>>2829536

Commie plz go.

>>2829511
F

>>2829775
>anyone who doesn't like concentrating all the wealth and power into a handful of wealthy opportunists is a communist

Shitbertarian please go