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"The Luddites did what every science fiction writer does: they took a technology and imagined all the different ways it could be used – who it could be used for and whom it could be used against. They demanded the creation of a parallel universe in which the left fork was taken, rather than the right." - @pluralistic

https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/

"Democratizing access to the means of production isn’t intrinsically anti-labor – it’s only bad for workers when the bounty of automation is disproportionally al­located to a small number of capital owners, and not workers."

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