They’re incapable of adaptation and adoption, like grandma who doesn’t want an iPhone because her touch tone landline telephone still works just fine and is familiar.

  • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Iphones bulk-collect troves of personal data for Palantir, marketers, and cops, and it is maddening that the tech exists to do the same things without routing it all through Silicon Valley, and has existed the whole time.

    You should do a deep dive on the Luddites. They were masters at operating and troubleshooting the most state-of-the-art factory machines of their time. They didn’t hate advanced technology, they opposed designs specifically contrived to crush labor.

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      What you’re saying is I’m doing the luddites a historical disservice by comparing them to these people? Because that wasn’t my intention, and I feel a little bad now.