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Cory Doctorow | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The point isn't just to reduce the wage-bill for a finished good - it's to reduce the "friction" of having to care about others and take their needs into account.

Luddites are not - and have never been - anti-technology. Rather, they are pro-human, and see production as a means to an end: broadly shared prosperity. The automation project says it's about replacing humans with machines, but over and over again - in machine learning, 

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Cory Doctorow | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 in "contactless" delivery, in on-demand workforces - the goal is to turn humans *into* machines. 

There is blood in the machine, Merchant tells us, whether its humans being torn apart *by* a machine, or humans being transformed into machines.

Brian and I are having a joint book-launch tomorrow night (Sept 27) at #ChevaliersBooks in #LosAngeles for my new book *The Internet Con* and his new book, *Blood in the Machine*:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417

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NeoLuddite | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Why the sensitive content warning?
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NeoLuddite | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Amithist makes it incredibly hard to read this, so I haven't...
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2667832e | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b92dcc07 
Thank you for this. It’s good to bang the drum that Luddites were never anti technology only pro autonomy. We know they were actually early adopters of new tech. I appreciate the way in which you tie it in with current big tech invading our lives.