Technology

Again, no worries for any misgivings or misunderstandings.

True, AI can't produce art (at least, we can agree that there will always be some absent quality from the product of a generative model that makes human art art), but it can produce many other things of value that does supplant a real person's product. Likewise, there are qualities of art that make it a commodity that can be sold - to pay the bills - that lessen and sometimes corrupts art. Some may even argue that Art can only be something that is done for the sake of itself and for no other purpose; it is good-in-itself. And funnily enough, craftsmen have been saying for literal centuries that machines can't reproduce that particular quality innate in hand-made crafts.

You also fail to mention the Luddites engaged with reality too, and didn’t just talk about ideology all day, like the average Twitter communist is wont to do.

I do remember mentioning, and possibly even advocating, for the Luddite course of action though. You're right, we shouldn't only sit around and talk shit about theft, we should also be doing the thieving ourselves and raiding the textile mills.

On theft; would I condemn theft if I didn't recognize private ownership to begin with? You're twisting yourself in knots; I can't help but think it's because you're trying so hard to 'getch' me.