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@ZDL @ladicius
It's important for everyone to understand this. Thank you for spelling it out so clearly.
At the same time, it's also important for everyone to understand that the Luddites lost. They lost every single war over every single technology they ever tried to protect their lives and livelihoods from. They always have, and they always will.
If we are going to SURVIVE, our survival strategy can't rely on either 'replacing' jobs OR preventing disruptive technology from destroying them.
@ZDL
I spoke too broadly; I apologize.
I didn't mean to say that they didn't make a lasting positive impact on labor and consumer rights.
All I meant to say was that the technologies they opposed still exist and are now indispensable and (mostly) positive features of the industrial economy.
The victories you describe are positive and massive; my argument is that victories like those are possible and desirable (and necessary!) while winning a Butlerian Jihad is none of those things.