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29. Juli 2025  •  2 Minuten

Luddismus ist nicht gegen Technologie, sondern hinterfragt, wer davon profitieren sollte.

Brian Merchant hat die Schlussfolgerung daraus in einem Interview mit Current Affairs über sein Buch zu Luddismus («Maschinenstürmer») schön auf den Punkt gebracht:

Just about every point that we’ve made thus far supports the thesis that there’s no such thing as technological determinism. Silicon Valley is so swept up in this sort of formulation, that all technology is progress, but no. Technology is a series of choices made by people who develop it, and those technologies and people have politics. If we so choose, we have the ability to shape or to decide what goes into that process.

I’m not saying it’s always easy. Sometimes there are immense barriers put up between us and these technologies being developed, and that’s also a calculation that has long been made where Google and Apple and Amazon would rather control how the technology is created and how it’s used. But it is not true that it is immutable, that all technology is progress, and that we cannot ask for more say over these systems. We’re beginning to see more and more of that, and it’s been really encouraging to see this breakdown in the equation of all technology to progress.

But yes, I think the quote I put in the book is, a robot is not coming for your job, management is. They’re making this decision to try to replace you. It’s not any force of nature. They think they can make a little bit of money by replacing some of your tasks with a robotic software automation or a piece of mechanized equipment on the factory line, but it’s a decision, and we can contest those decisions, and more and more people are.

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