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Re:What Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated f... by Legend2440 on Friday March 08, 2024 @01:22PM (#39644124)
That was the right move from the state - especially since the luddites started the violence.

Automation has made our lives so much easier and the common man so much wealthier. Imagine if we were still weaving our clothes by hand because master weavers in the 1800s were scared of losing their jobs.

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Re:What Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated f... by kennywinker on Saturday March 09, 2024 @12:09AM (#39649535)
Smashing machines that threaten a large group of people's way of life isn't violence that I care about. Why do you care about it? Do you put yourself more in the position of the machine-owner than the machine operator?

> Imagine if we were still weaving our clothes by hand because master weavers in the 1800s were scared of losing their jobs.

Seems like that might have been a win-win-win. We would have high quality clothing. Weavers would have a high quality of life. Fast fashion, and it's unquantifiably massive environmental impact, wouldn't exist. Where's the downside?

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