Please stop using Luddite as a slur
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Data protection officers and other privacy professionals feel coerced into going along with some dicey setups and risky processing activities because they canāt afford being seen as a Luddite who will advise against everything and āhinder progressā, aka cost saving via AI replacement.
'Luddite' is a term popularly used to refer to somebody who is opposed to technological progress, who will not get with the times.
But Luddites were fucking revolutionaries.
Textiles were a cottage industry. Then machines were developed and production of clothes and such became a factory-based industry. These factories were owned by Capitalists - people who have a lot of capital (money, property).
The working conditions were terrible and cottage industries were destroyed, and the Capitalists took the profits. Factories were a relatively new feature of society at this point.
So the Luddites, being the fucking rockstars they are, destroyed these machines in protest.
They were anti-Capitalist, not anti-technology. Please hold them in high regard. If only we had people so willing to resist today.
What I know comes from my all-time favorite podcast, The Industrial Revolutions, Chapter 24: The Luddites:
As capitalists invested in machine technology, they put many of their traditional competitors out of business, forcing them into the factories as de-skilled workers. Then, between falling incomes and rising prices, those began to strike back. And the Luddites ā a shadowy network of militant 20-somethings, led by a man who probably never existed ā went to war with the machines and their owners. This is their story.
Also, Animal Agriculture is truly evil and you should learn about it and reflect on your participation in it.