The luddites were were from not too far away in time and also an anti "companies using technology to dehumanize their workers" movement. Not surprising we see them also coming back when wealth inequality tips back into the range last seen during the robber baron era.
We could learn from the successes and failures of the movements of that era. Instead we were trained in school that they were all bad so we'll have to reinvent the wheel or get bulldozed by the oligarchs this time.
Not that the woke / collectivist / individual discussion in the thread is unimportant in our time. But it is interesting that's where the discussion went....
The labor movement is one thread of a bigger cord.
How do we remain human in the midst of anti-human ideologies/technologies? Looms, chemical weapons, coal mines, assembly lines, propaganda, McKenzie consulting, algorithms, AI, etc.
It's a spiritual war. Enlightenment thinking can't solve it, because it caused it.
Anyone who repairs any sort of thing for fun on money knows that step 1 of fixing the problem is understanding where and how it went wrong.
