[HN Gopher] On Teenage Luddites
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       On Teenage Luddites
        
       Author : bifftastic
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-12-16 14:29 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | yesbut wrote:
       | A Luddite was "a member of any of the bands of English workers
       | who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woollen mills,
       | that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811-16)." They
       | weren't anti-technology. They were anti-"having their jobs
       | replaced by machines".
        
       | plastiquebeech wrote:
       | People might scoff at the petty vandalism, but how many of you
       | over the age of 35 had a scrupulously clean adolescence?
       | 
       | For the under-30 crowd, everything in their post-puberty lives
       | has been carefully recorded in a semi-public ledger, and they
       | know it.
       | 
       | We should expect people to declare their independence as they
       | enter young adulthood, and it's hard to do that without any space
       | to safely screw up. The Facebook generation was aggressively
       | conditioned to conform with their peers through an industrialized
       | record-share-shame pipeline, so it's good to see gen Z pushing in
       | the opposite direction.
        
         | trynewideas wrote:
         | > People might scoff at the petty vandalism, but how many of
         | you over the age of 35 had a scrupulously clean adolescence?
         | 
         | Both my parents were cops in a small rural town, and my father
         | was physically abusive. Damn straight I was squeaky clean.
         | 
         | With modern technology, now every phone is both a cop and an
         | abuse vector. Who needs dads when you've got social media?
        
       | rufus_foreman wrote:
       | Great to see young people put down their phones, step away from
       | their screens, go outside and partake in simple natural joys
       | like...checks notes...painting graffiti on subway cars.
        
         | rhn_mk1 wrote:
         | As far as misbehaviour goes, this is one of the least
         | consequential examples, and good thrill value to boot!
        
           | tech_ken wrote:
           | I love my neighborhood tags! Yeah some of it's kind of a lazy
           | scrawl and that's annoying, but the really audacious, big
           | production stuff is (a) aesthetically pleasing to me and (b)
           | adds an interesting element to my urban ecology. Fascinating
           | to see which tags get repeated in different parts of the
           | city, and whenever I find a new one by a name I know it makes
           | me feel connected to the place I live in an exciting way.
        
       | bifftastic wrote:
       | NYT article referred to in the article is being discussed here:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34004822
        
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