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Isn't it a bit pointless to discuss Luddism in a context of popular, mainstream technologies like computers? If people didn't won't some technology, that technology never got popular. That's how things get regulated in a democracy. Many techs got slowed down that way, like GMO for instance, or fracking industries. People just didn't like it (with a reason or not, that's the other story completely), so the laws were made to put it under the control. But Luddites who fight the mainstream technology are completely different kind, they're basically saying that they know better than others, and it's no different than any other minor political option that believes that everyone should think the way they do. And because obviously it will not work, then they resolve to violence, trying to force others into it. And it almost never worked in a long run.



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