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The luddites get a bad rap these days, but we need more of them.

>>thfura+(OP)
if you want to learn more about modern luddites check out "This Machine Kills" podcast and to some extent Ed Zitron / Cory Doctorow Blogs, might be a good place to start.

Political-Economic analysis of technology is not super popular thing in a mainstream media, but disabling, sabotaging or vandalising anti-human tech might be.

>>thfura+(OP)
We need engineers to be politicians, not cable news taking heads

>>srouss+s9
This is the only answer.

>>Alex_N+Q8
> Industrial Society and its future

Like this?

>>srouss+s9
So like Elon Musk? And don't give me the "no true scotsman" argument.

>>srouss+s9
And what makes you believe that engineers have more morals than cable news folks have? Does not match my experience.

Most of them got into tech because it's fun and because it pays royaly. Morals have little to do with that for lots of folks.

>>yusina+Ik
One could even argue that people who are seeking fun and profitable activities over socially beneficial and less profitable activities are far more likely to have less concern for the harmful effects of their actions.

>>chipsr+Wm1
That's indeed my observation too, in general but also in tech in particular, but I didn't want to straight put insult the typical HN commenter as I'm sure there are also lots of moral individuals around here.