• XTL@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    So, unnecessary, stressing, repetitive, and dangerous work should still be done manually with worse results?

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      1 year ago

      The whole point of my comment was to help dispel that misunderstanding. Somehow, I don’t think you actually missed that…

      The factory work was much more dangerous - and arguably all of your other points - than that of artisans’. As for the results? Despite my short comment, this was already addressed:

      resulted in a poorer quality of product

      The only ones who benefited from the changes were the capitalist elites, who relegated the artisans from working with/for their own means to becoming a part of the working class who labored for the factory owner’s profits and growing social inequity instead.

      Maybe you think the Luddites should have been anti-technology in such a situation and so project that onto them. But it’s not the historical reality of the movement.