The New Luddites Aren't Backing Down

> "I very much identify as a Luddite," Dubal said. "This doesn’t mean I am against technology. It means I am against dispossession."

Very nicely put.

I'm proud that there are some forefronts for pro-user pro-human technology out there.

RFC8890 The Internet Is For End Users is a beautifully staked position that should inform & guide other works. The open web & JSON endpoints have a strong democratizing strength, that the user-agent/browser makes real every day with extensions & userscripts.

The industrial purposes of machines ought be secondary to a holistic ability of humans to possess & work the machines around them. We can iterate & change & evolve the world as people, as opposed to having it shaped & formed to trap us inside. There's efforts like Malleable Systems Collective whose central purpose is this adaptability, this ability to to shape systems. It feels like a spiritual calling to me, like a semi-invosible battle we are all in to enable or suppress human will.

Technology has always destroyed jobs and industries, all the way back to Ned Ludd. But it created new jobs and made us more efficient. Otherwise, 90% of us would be farmers.

It is unclear to me why any specific industry should receive special protection from technology. Should we ban bread factories to protect the jobs of local bakers? If one was to draw a line, what would be the criteria?

On a side note, we are hearing about this much more now, because the journalists and artists have a louder voice than the bakers.