Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)

A

podcast

Found at

https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-128-breaking-things-at-work-with-gavin-mueller

Part of

Hotel Bar Sessions

Featuring

Gavin Mueller

Luddism and neo-Luddism. In relation to Breaking Things at Work.

Claim: The free software movement is an example of neo-Luddism. Hackers were clearly not anti-technology, they were concerned about the enclosure of technology for capitalism.

They ask: what could technology created under a different value system look like? (Maybe Technology Networks. Or Project Cybersyn.)

He gives right to repair as another example of neo-Luddism. (The right to repair movement is an example of neo-Luddism.) Right on. With that and free software, I seem to fit the description.