Tuesday, January 13, 2009

factory drone = bad, skilled artisan = good : from ranprieur.com

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Here's a post summarizing it, The Economic Benefits of Localization. If I were to make the same argument, I would start with the Luddites. The word has come to mean knee-jerk opposition to technology, but the original Luddites had a position so sophisticated that modern industrialized people would have trouble understanding it. They opposed a specific technology that replaced skilled artisans, working autonomously at home and making good money, with unskilled workers making poverty wages in oppressive factories. This is the kind of change that the industrial revolution brought everywhere: the people who did the work lost skill, money, participation in power, and quality of life, while the owners of the machines gained wealth and power in obscene and corrupting quantities.
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site from which i copied this is here

Sounds sophisticated enough for me.

Noam Chomsky , at this link, claims that education serves to make you an 'unskilled worker making poverty wages'
for the capitalist oppressive factories. That the capitalists setup consciously destroys liberties of the working class so that they never have the time /money to learn anything other than to do 'unskilled work for poverty wages' , and remain addicted to the machine.
I have seen the vicious cycle bear down on me even as a corporate drone.
They say leisure is the true measure of wealth. Ancient Greeks.

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