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From the wikipedia article, Luddite: The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanised looms—against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their entire way of life. As a proponent of software efficiency measures [...]

When you work for a company, some days you feel owned. You feel maybe as if you are an asset for “the man”. But on those days when you realize that you are an autonomous agent able to do as much as your inner resolve allows, then you are a person who is indeed useful. [...]