What Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future

max_dryzen, 26 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

Summarized with the power of wet intelligence:

• History of Luddism - Looms
• Scientific Management and empiricism-washing
• Luddism in the present - VPNs, dark web, browser extensions, etc.
• PS something something racial bias

It’s one of those comics whose impact and memorability is stunted by its preoccupation with info-dumping.

bionicjoey, 2 months ago

I’m sure the Luddites can teach us a lot. After all, history has shown that their movement was a huge success since now it’s illegal to replace workers with automation.

Rivalarrival, 2 months ago

3 overlays to click through, then hijacked the back button to pop up a fourth. Don’t care a fucking thing about the content, just adding the site to my filters.