When the technology really gets beyond human comprehension and people are just guessing and throwing shit at the wall (or billions and billions of dollars), I think it's a sensible position to be a luddite.
toast@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
Nothing wrong with being a Luddite
etherphon@piefed.world 1 day ago
gdog05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There literally is. It’s a mentality that prevents vaccine adoption rates and such. That said, being slow to adopt a technology like Boomers to the Internet is okay. Not adopting a technology because it has no inherent value and is being foisted on us by the ruling class is solid bro behavior.
sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Tell me you don't know who the Luddites were without telling me you don't know who the Luddites were.
gdog05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh I didn’t realize that everyone uses the term literally. I thought it had expanded to mean a general lack of adoption of change. My bad I guess.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The luddites were skilled labor rioting against capital using machines to replace them with unskilled low wage labor
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was always about worker’s rights anyways:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
It was about making sure that as mechanization resulted in a lower need for labor, that workers compensation remained steady, and they worked less hours.
People hating luddites is just the result of centuries old propaganda from the wealthy