Semi-retired professor Carolyn Marvin became a local celebrity facing down Philadelphia’s growing robot delivery army: ‘It’s my first amendment right to protest’
Anyone i have seen using the word “luddite” so far has proved themselves to be morons of the highest order. They always conflate rejection of technology to fighting to be replaced by our capitalist overlords
The Luddites were the good guys, by the way. They were labor activists fighting back against mass-unemployment in a world that didn’t care what happened to workers who lost their livelihood.
The government response was to make “machine breaking” a capital crime so that they could execute labor activists who dared take direct action.
Declaring yourself anti-Luddite is just taking the side of the capitalists who would murder workers to protect the machines. That’s not a wise side to be taking today if you’re not a billionaire.
A Luddite is someone who opposes new technology, automation, or the modern information age.
I’m aware of the history and it’s a very apt parallel. At the same time it strikes me as rather futile and misguided to push against progress to save shitty jobs. Worker protections have improved over the 200 years since then, we just need to make sure society keeps moving in the right direction for everyone.
We havnt solved world hunger, income inequality, climate change or so many other human social issues… but yes, a robot to deliever food to the wealthiest folks is going to be the future and help everyone!
You’re right, a person doing that job will totally fill the income inequality gap. That’s the real future of worker emancipation. Up by the bootstraps, one McDonald’s order at a time!
That’s not new. Look at any modern assembly line - should we focus on getting more humans back in there so they can do mind-numbing work eight hours a day?
We obviously need to put a lot of effort into making society work for everyone. But sticking your head in the sand and refusing progress is counterproductive.
We should focus on planning the economy, and until we can do that, we need to let people keep their jobs.
The weavers had to be suppressed with the military when the autolooms came for their jobs, now imagine if that’s every job in every sector in every country all at the same time. There is a tipping point where job losses outpace job creation, and then people start picking up guns.
Dumb fucks like you love to just roll over and let these Big Brother drones eventually track everyone’s movements via facial recognition and use the info to throw dissenters into camps
The proper solution is to properly pay the delivery person. You shouldn’t replace them with a clanker that doubles as a surveillance drone
Serious luddite vibes. These jobs will be lost to automation like so many before them, and we’ll be better off for it.
Anyone i have seen using the word “luddite” so far has proved themselves to be morons of the highest order. They always conflate rejection of technology to fighting to be replaced by our capitalist overlords
The Luddites were the good guys, by the way. They were labor activists fighting back against mass-unemployment in a world that didn’t care what happened to workers who lost their livelihood.
The government response was to make “machine breaking” a capital crime so that they could execute labor activists who dared take direct action.
Declaring yourself anti-Luddite is just taking the side of the capitalists who would murder workers to protect the machines. That’s not a wise side to be taking today if you’re not a billionaire.
Luddite
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A Luddite is someone who opposes new technology, automation, or the modern information age.
I’m aware of the history and it’s a very apt parallel. At the same time it strikes me as rather futile and misguided to push against progress to save shitty jobs. Worker protections have improved over the 200 years since then, we just need to make sure society keeps moving in the right direction for everyone.
I bet you call billionaires “job creators” don’t you?
Progress for whom?
We havnt solved world hunger, income inequality, climate change or so many other human social issues… but yes, a robot to deliever food to the wealthiest folks is going to be the future and help everyone!
You’re right, a person doing that job will totally fill the income inequality gap. That’s the real future of worker emancipation. Up by the bootstraps, one McDonald’s order at a time!
Not having a job is shittier than having a shitty job.
One act of resistance will never solve a societal problem, but that doesn’t make acts of resistance useless.
Then they won’t have a job and no one is hiring. Without a planned economy, people are fucked over by automation.
That’s not new. Look at any modern assembly line - should we focus on getting more humans back in there so they can do mind-numbing work eight hours a day?
We obviously need to put a lot of effort into making society work for everyone. But sticking your head in the sand and refusing progress is counterproductive.
We should focus on planning the economy, and until we can do that, we need to let people keep their jobs.
The weavers had to be suppressed with the military when the autolooms came for their jobs, now imagine if that’s every job in every sector in every country all at the same time. There is a tipping point where job losses outpace job creation, and then people start picking up guns.
Found the cog-sucker.
Dumb fucks like you love to just roll over and let these Big Brother drones eventually track everyone’s movements via facial recognition and use the info to throw dissenters into camps
Sure, the delivery bots are the lynchpin in our dystopian surveillance future. If only we could stop them, then nothing else would track us.
“Guys, one basket isn’t going to win us the game.”