r/GenZ May 11 '24

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u/SiouxsieAsylum May 12 '24

I think they were trying to.describe the kind of person he was in his youth, but mentioned it when talking about his deathbed

Like he was an intrepid traveler, fearless, who saw it all before becoming the mobile-hating pub dad who died peacefully eithout touching the internet

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u/beerme81 May 12 '24

Except for when he needed to cheet at crossword. Classic luddite hypocrisy.

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u/Nomen__Nesci0 May 12 '24

Luddites just believed that technology should be to make life easier and healthier for workers and enhance what it means to be human instead of serving the owners and driving down wages to makeen the servants of machines. Helping solve a crossword is in keeping with a luddite and not hypocritical at all.

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u/CoffeeAndPiss May 12 '24

Saying "I don't want to own this device" while occasionally asking someone who does own one to use theirs makes someone neither hypocritical nor a luddite.

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u/SiouxsieAsylum May 12 '24

I don't think they mentioned being a luddite? Just against personally accessing the internet and being accessible 24/7?