In *Blood In the Machine,* @bcmerchant delivers the definitive history of the #Luddites, and the clearest analysis of the automator's playbook, where "entrepreneurs'" lawless extraction from workers is called "innovation" and "inevitable":
https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/26/enochs-hammer/#thats-fronkonsteen
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@pluralistic If it's not too much trouble, would you mind please setting replies to these long threads to "unlisted"? That way only the top post gets pushed to everyone's timelines instead of *all* of them.
