I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?

  • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Well that’s because you’re a tech-hating Luddite most likely \s

    Yeah since I learned who the Luddites were I’ve kind of fallen in love with them

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      It’s genuinely criminal how badly their reputations got tarred; when I heard what they were actually about I was genuinely struck like “my god there WERE people who felt the way I do”. Like-- I’m literally a communist, I don’t believe there will ever be a point of human existence where meaningful, dignifying labor has been ‘abolished’; nor do I think we should aspire to that.

      Automate away the drudgery, the sinecurial, and the tedious, sure, that’s all well and good and should be done; but that which lets a person create, to make something useful, that they could be proud of? Tech shouldn’t be eliminating that, and that very much feels like the future we’re going toward.