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Device hoarding is costing the economy.
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I love it when people are called "Luddites" for hating the enshittified tech because guess what? The OG Luddites weren't actually "Luddites", either. They weren't afraid of progress per se, but its use against the average person. Unfortunately, the propaganda against them worked too well.
I've learned so much about the Luddites in the past couple of years. I've found it super useful to connect our current struggles to historical analogues.
It makes me think of the writings of philosopher and political theorist Frederic Jameson. He argues that one of the best ways we can resist the cultural logic of late stage capitalism is by making these connections to history — a quote he's known for is "always historicize". By reclaiming and reconnecting to our history, it's easier to understand it as a dialectical process.^[1]
[1]: this isn't the best summary of Jameson's points. He's a pretty dense writer, and I'm still working through his stuff. If you're someone who enjoys videos, Michael Burns is an ex-philosophy professor who has a few good videos on Jameson