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Re:Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:47AM (#16473264)
Just like it did during the industrial revolution with mass replacement of people by machines.
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Re:Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules by pixl97 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:04AM (#16473391)
Quite a few Luddites starved during those times.
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Re:Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules by s73v3r_ on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:16PM (#16477979)
Most of the farmers were able to get jobs in factories, with little downtime or retraining necessary. What are today's factory workers going to do that's comparable? Remember, they still have rent to pay, food to buy, families to support.
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Re:Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules by kilotaras on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:05AM (#16473901)
One can derive argument for both sides from industrial revolution (not many horses working around), but generalizing from one datapoint isn't the most intellectually robust way to analyze the issue.
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Re:Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules by TheLostOne on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:01AM (#16473363)
No, during the industrial revolution jobs were mostly created. This was at the same time the agricultural sector lost most jobs. With industry 2.0 and people being replaced, these moved into the service industry. Now the service industry is replaced with no where to go.
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