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It still remains to be seen if the Luddites were wrong or merely early -- that's the very thing under discussion!

Great PR to use their name as an insult before resolving whether they're right or not.

I didn't know this was still debated.

There's at least a very popular opinion that the accelerated rate of technological progress will make humans the horses of the 21st century, that is, we'll be replaced at jobs by technology faster than (most of us) can be retrained, and that most of us will be rendered useless and left in the cold.

The article itself was about that debate still going on, so it seems disingenuous to say you werent aware it was still being discussed.

I am a software engineer, and also a luddite. technology destroys jobs. the question is whether that destruction liberates or oppresses. do we fire some workers and overwork others, or find ways to reduce and share the burden and benefits of labour?

Technology also creates jobs. I think what you are missing here is that technology is neutral to human ambitions. Technology doesn't care--it could empower us, destroy us, whatever. Technology does not care about human destiny.

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