‘Way back in the early 1800’s, a bunch of otherwise nice folks took a look at what technology and industrialization was doing to the job market and decided that the best way to stay employed was to smash the machines that made it easier for less skilled people to do the same sort of work that they’d been doing. Ever since then, people who fear or distrust technology have been given the name “Luddite“, even if they don’t have the same sort of motivations.
I’ve got a sort of reverse Midas Touch going on. Everything I touch turns to junk. It’s not an instantaneous effect, obviously, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. I’m just starting to worry that, if things don’t change pretty soon, someone will coin the term “Mattite” and apply it to people whose presence causes technology to spontaneously smash itself.
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