Always. And every now and then HN realizes it, then promptly forgets.
Contrary to popular propaganda, the original Luddites weren't opposed to technology, they were opposed to the effect of technological progress on the working class. They knew that automation and mass production would be used to devalue labor, flood the market with inferior products, and that all of the benefits and profit from the industrial revolution would go to the corporations, at the expense of their quality of life. And they were correct.
And modern day "Luddites" were correct about the centralization and commoditization of the web, social media, crypto and NFTs, Elon Musk and autonomous vehicles, and will be proven right about AI. Tech has nothing left to offer but grift upon grift.
Contrary to popular propaganda, the original Luddites weren't opposed to technology, they were opposed to the effect of technological progress on the working class. They knew that automation and mass production would be used to devalue labor, flood the market with inferior products, and that all of the benefits and profit from the industrial revolution would go to the corporations, at the expense of their quality of life. And they were correct.
And modern day "Luddites" were correct about the centralization and commoditization of the web, social media, crypto and NFTs, Elon Musk and autonomous vehicles, and will be proven right about AI. Tech has nothing left to offer but grift upon grift.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-l...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37664682
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/why-the-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17053994