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Ron Franke @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 17:40 UTC

"Modern Luddite", by A Pagan in Arizona, #DailyKos

I’m a tech guy, but it’s hard to disagree with this.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/21/800087376/community/modern-luddite

As an aside, Luddites were not anti technology and anti change. What they wanted was protections for workers and crafts people that were loosing jobs to the technology advances. They were also concerned that quality would be diminished by machine output versus craft’s people's output. Lives and livelihoods were significantly impacted and quality did in fact decline.

#Technology #Business #Luddite

#dailykos #technology #business #luddite

Ron Franke @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 17:40 UTC

"Modern Luddite", by A Pagan in Arizona, #DailyKos

I’m a tech guy, but it’s hard to disagree with this.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/21/800087376/community/modern-luddite

As an aside, Luddites were not anti technology and anti change. What they wanted was protections for workers and crafts people that were loosing jobs to the technology advances. They were also concerned that quality would be diminished by machine output versus craft’s people's output. Lives and livelihoods were significantly impacted and quality did in fact decline.

#Technology #Business #Luddite

#dailykos #technology #business #luddite

Ron Franke @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 17:40 UTC

"Modern Luddite", by A Pagan in Arizona, #DailyKos

I’m a tech guy, but it’s hard to disagree with this.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/21/800087376/community/modern-luddite

As an aside, Luddites were not anti technology and anti change. What they wanted was protections for workers and crafts people that were loosing jobs to the technology advances. They were also concerned that quality would be diminished by machine output versus craft’s people's output. Lives and livelihoods were significantly impacted and quality did in fact decline.

#Technology #Business #Luddite

#dailykos #technology #business #luddite

Ron Franke @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 17:40 UTC

"Modern Luddite", by A Pagan in Arizona, #DailyKos

I’m a tech guy, but it’s hard to disagree with this.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/21/800087376/community/modern-luddite

As an aside, Luddites were not anti technology and anti change. What they wanted was protections for workers and crafts people that were loosing jobs to the technology advances. They were also concerned that quality would be diminished by machine output versus craft’s people's output. Lives and livelihoods were significantly impacted and quality did in fact decline.

#Technology #Business #Luddite

#luddite #business #technology #dailykos

Ron Franke @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 17:40 UTC

"Modern Luddite", by A Pagan in Arizona, #DailyKos

I’m a tech guy, but it’s hard to disagree with this.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/21/800087376/community/modern-luddite

As an aside, Luddites were not anti technology and anti change. What they wanted was protections for workers and crafts people that were loosing jobs to the technology advances. They were also concerned that quality would be diminished by machine output versus craft’s people's output. Lives and livelihoods were significantly impacted and quality did in fact decline.

#Technology #Business #Luddite

#dailykos #technology #business #luddite

anubis2814 @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 13:59 UTC

#luddite #nedluddwasright #nedludd #solarpunk
youtu.be/BMewz8ZvM5A General Ned Ludd, was quite literally the Robin Hood of the labor movement until we were told to laugh at him as anti-technology. He was likely fake, just like Robin Hood, who stood up against labor abuse and exploitation masked by technology. The story is that he lost his trade as a weaver and was forced to take a job by the owner class that pushed him out of business with their mechanical looms. He fell behind in production and was beaten for it, a common office motivational tactic back in the day and something our ownership class would bring back if they thought they could get away with it. In anger, he smashed the looms and ran away to Sherwood Forest. This story rippled through the workers who used to own their own lives but were now effectively owned by the owner class. They began smashing looms and other labor-exploitative technologies and writing up their exact reasons for doing so, signing their letters General Ludd.
Of course, because Britain was not a democracy, the government did its best to crack down on labor rights activists, and it became a never-ending struggle, or the final conflict, as the Second Internationale put it, as all wars are effectively waged by the ruling/owner class, but they send us all to die in it.
Over time, Unions and democracy began taming technology to be more balanced between labor extraction and actually beneficial to the workers. It was always more of a truce than anything else, labor being extracted but overall new technology benefiting mankind overall as an acceptable tradeoff. Meanwhile, the Luddites were just a footnote in history of idiots who were anti-technology, which was never the case
Then Web 2.0 came around. It went into overdrive, creating the gig economy overnight, using monopolistic practices, destroying unions and other labor-protective jobs overnight, and replacing them with digital serfs living paycheck to paycheck in a job that can change the terms of service overnight.
Then came Ensh*ttification, where humankind became an annoying problem to deal with in terms of technology instead of what technology was designed to serve, and it became a data-extractive tool for the rich and powerful, squeezing everything we were worth and destroying the planet in the process. Just like last time, democracy, unions, and community are the only ways to at least partially seize the means of production, as Marx put it, the entire concept and point of socialism, so that it serves us and not an owner class trying to squeeze everything out of us, including our lives.
General Ludd needs to make a comeback as a folk hero and not as the laughing stock the propaganda made him. He was never against technology, but technology was used as slavery with extra steps. Robin Hood was a hero for the feudal world that no longer exists. Ned Ludd is his industrial-age counterpart. Luddite groups have started popping up on college campuses, where people learn how to use technology instead of technology using them. Examples of technology that doesn't use you are Linux(operating system) and mastodon(social media), both open source and and and owned by we the people, not a single person is made richer by you using it, its just there created and maintained by thousands of volunteers to make your life richer and as a thumb in the eye to big tech if people decide to but the extra mindful effort to shift over.
Solarpunk is another form of this, which you can see in my solarpunkUSA YouTube channel. That will require us to use old, modern, and future technologies to make a technology community instead of a rent-seeking-centric one, cutting the waste, allowing us to spend half as much, and not have to work at BS jobs that provide no benefit to humanity, just the rich.

#solarpunk #luddite #nedluddwasright #nedludd

anubis2814 @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 13:59 UTC

#luddite #nedluddwasright #nedludd #solarpunk
youtu.be/BMewz8ZvM5A General Ned Ludd, was quite literally the Robin Hood of the labor movement until we were told to laugh at him as anti-technology. He was likely fake, just like Robin Hood, who stood up against labor abuse and exploitation masked by technology. The story is that he lost his trade as a weaver and was forced to take a job by the owner class that pushed him out of business with their mechanical looms. He fell behind in production and was beaten for it, a common office motivational tactic back in the day and something our ownership class would bring back if they thought they could get away with it. In anger, he smashed the looms and ran away to Sherwood Forest. This story rippled through the workers who used to own their own lives but were now effectively owned by the owner class. They began smashing looms and other labor-exploitative technologies and writing up their exact reasons for doing so, signing their letters General Ludd.
Of course, because Britain was not a democracy, the government did its best to crack down on labor rights activists, and it became a never-ending struggle, or the final conflict, as the Second Internationale put it, as all wars are effectively waged by the ruling/owner class, but they send us all to die in it.
Over time, Unions and democracy began taming technology to be more balanced between labor extraction and actually beneficial to the workers. It was always more of a truce than anything else, labor being extracted but overall new technology benefiting mankind overall as an acceptable tradeoff. Meanwhile, the Luddites were just a footnote in history of idiots who were anti-technology, which was never the case
Then Web 2.0 came around. It went into overdrive, creating the gig economy overnight, using monopolistic practices, destroying unions and other labor-protective jobs overnight, and replacing them with digital serfs living paycheck to paycheck in a job that can change the terms of service overnight.
Then came Ensh*ttification, where humankind became an annoying problem to deal with in terms of technology instead of what technology was designed to serve, and it became a data-extractive tool for the rich and powerful, squeezing everything we were worth and destroying the planet in the process. Just like last time, democracy, unions, and community are the only ways to at least partially seize the means of production, as Marx put it, the entire concept and point of socialism, so that it serves us and not an owner class trying to squeeze everything out of us, including our lives.
General Ludd needs to make a comeback as a folk hero and not as the laughing stock the propaganda made him. He was never against technology, but technology was used as slavery with extra steps. Robin Hood was a hero for the feudal world that no longer exists. Ned Ludd is his industrial-age counterpart. Luddite groups have started popping up on college campuses, where people learn how to use technology instead of technology using them. Examples of technology that doesn't use you are Linux(operating system) and mastodon(social media), both open source and and and owned by we the people, not a single person is made richer by you using it, its just there created and maintained by thousands of volunteers to make your life richer and as a thumb in the eye to big tech if people decide to but the extra mindful effort to shift over.
Solarpunk is another form of this, which you can see in my solarpunkUSA YouTube channel. That will require us to use old, modern, and future technologies to make a technology community instead of a rent-seeking-centric one, cutting the waste, allowing us to spend half as much, and not have to work at BS jobs that provide no benefit to humanity, just the rich.

#solarpunk #luddite #nedluddwasright #nedludd

anubis2814 @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 13:59 UTC

#luddite #nedluddwasright #nedludd #solarpunk
youtu.be/BMewz8ZvM5A General Ned Ludd, was quite literally the Robin Hood of the labor movement until we were told to laugh at him as anti-technology. He was likely fake, just like Robin Hood, who stood up against labor abuse and exploitation masked by technology. The story is that he lost his trade as a weaver and was forced to take a job by the owner class that pushed him out of business with their mechanical looms. He fell behind in production and was beaten for it, a common office motivational tactic back in the day and something our ownership class would bring back if they thought they could get away with it. In anger, he smashed the looms and ran away to Sherwood Forest. This story rippled through the workers who used to own their own lives but were now effectively owned by the owner class. They began smashing looms and other labor-exploitative technologies and writing up their exact reasons for doing so, signing their letters General Ludd.
Of course, because Britain was not a democracy, the government did its best to crack down on labor rights activists, and it became a never-ending struggle, or the final conflict, as the Second Internationale put it, as all wars are effectively waged by the ruling/owner class, but they send us all to die in it.
Over time, Unions and democracy began taming technology to be more balanced between labor extraction and actually beneficial to the workers. It was always more of a truce than anything else, labor being extracted but overall new technology benefiting mankind overall as an acceptable tradeoff. Meanwhile, the Luddites were just a footnote in history of idiots who were anti-technology, which was never the case
Then Web 2.0 came around. It went into overdrive, creating the gig economy overnight, using monopolistic practices, destroying unions and other labor-protective jobs overnight, and replacing them with digital serfs living paycheck to paycheck in a job that can change the terms of service overnight.
Then came Ensh*ttification, where humankind became an annoying problem to deal with in terms of technology instead of what technology was designed to serve, and it became a data-extractive tool for the rich and powerful, squeezing everything we were worth and destroying the planet in the process. Just like last time, democracy, unions, and community are the only ways to at least partially seize the means of production, as Marx put it, the entire concept and point of socialism, so that it serves us and not an owner class trying to squeeze everything out of us, including our lives.
General Ludd needs to make a comeback as a folk hero and not as the laughing stock the propaganda made him. He was never against technology, but technology was used as slavery with extra steps. Robin Hood was a hero for the feudal world that no longer exists. Ned Ludd is his industrial-age counterpart. Luddite groups have started popping up on college campuses, where people learn how to use technology instead of technology using them. Examples of technology that doesn't use you are Linux(operating system) and mastodon(social media), both open source and and and owned by we the people, not a single person is made richer by you using it, its just there created and maintained by thousands of volunteers to make your life richer and as a thumb in the eye to big tech if people decide to but the extra mindful effort to shift over.
Solarpunk is another form of this, which you can see in my solarpunkUSA YouTube channel. That will require us to use old, modern, and future technologies to make a technology community instead of a rent-seeking-centric one, cutting the waste, allowing us to spend half as much, and not have to work at BS jobs that provide no benefit to humanity, just the rich.

#nedludd #nedluddwasright #luddite #solarpunk

anubis2814 @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 13:59 UTC

#luddite #nedluddwasright #nedludd #solarpunk
youtu.be/BMewz8ZvM5A General Ned Ludd, was quite literally the Robin Hood of the labor movement until we were told to laugh at him as anti-technology. He was likely fake, just like Robin Hood, who stood up against labor abuse and exploitation masked by technology. The story is that he lost his trade as a weaver and was forced to take a job by the owner class that pushed him out of business with their mechanical looms. He fell behind in production and was beaten for it, a common office motivational tactic back in the day and something our ownership class would bring back if they thought they could get away with it. In anger, he smashed the looms and ran away to Sherwood Forest. This story rippled through the workers who used to own their own lives but were now effectively owned by the owner class. They began smashing looms and other labor-exploitative technologies and writing up their exact reasons for doing so, signing their letters General Ludd.
Of course, because Britain was not a democracy, the government did its best to crack down on labor rights activists, and it became a never-ending struggle, or the final conflict, as the Second Internationale put it, as all wars are effectively waged by the ruling/owner class, but they send us all to die in it.
Over time, Unions and democracy began taming technology to be more balanced between labor extraction and actually beneficial to the workers. It was always more of a truce than anything else, labor being extracted but overall new technology benefiting mankind overall as an acceptable tradeoff. Meanwhile, the Luddites were just a footnote in history of idiots who were anti-technology, which was never the case
Then Web 2.0 came around. It went into overdrive, creating the gig economy overnight, using monopolistic practices, destroying unions and other labor-protective jobs overnight, and replacing them with digital serfs living paycheck to paycheck in a job that can change the terms of service overnight.
Then came Ensh*ttification, where humankind became an annoying problem to deal with in terms of technology instead of what technology was designed to serve, and it became a data-extractive tool for the rich and powerful, squeezing everything we were worth and destroying the planet in the process. Just like last time, democracy, unions, and community are the only ways to at least partially seize the means of production, as Marx put it, the entire concept and point of socialism, so that it serves us and not an owner class trying to squeeze everything out of us, including our lives.
General Ludd needs to make a comeback as a folk hero and not as the laughing stock the propaganda made him. He was never against technology, but technology was used as slavery with extra steps. Robin Hood was a hero for the feudal world that no longer exists. Ned Ludd is his industrial-age counterpart. Luddite groups have started popping up on college campuses, where people learn how to use technology instead of technology using them. Examples of technology that doesn't use you are Linux(operating system) and mastodon(social media), both open source and and and owned by we the people, not a single person is made richer by you using it, its just there created and maintained by thousands of volunteers to make your life richer and as a thumb in the eye to big tech if people decide to but the extra mindful effort to shift over.
Solarpunk is another form of this, which you can see in my solarpunkUSA YouTube channel. That will require us to use old, modern, and future technologies to make a technology community instead of a rent-seeking-centric one, cutting the waste, allowing us to spend half as much, and not have to work at BS jobs that provide no benefit to humanity, just the rich.

#solarpunk #luddite #nedluddwasright #nedludd

Alex 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @[email protected] · 2026-08-14 · 23:41 UTC

@FiddleSix

computer crashed last night... I lost all photos and documents... worked ok today but something seems to have stopped me copying from you tube...