One of my favorite random pieces of history: Lord Byron penned an (admittedly well-written) full-throated defense of Luddites, and was one of the most popular people to advocate destroying machines and slowing tech. http://www.luddites200.org.uk/LordByronspeech.html … Then he gave birth to Ada Lovelace.
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Replying to @AustenAllred
yeah this only seems ironic if one is deeply misinformed about what the luddites actually were and how they operated
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Replying to @profunc @AustenAllred
the luddites' fight was over wages and working conditions. in some actions they actually smashed some stocking-frames and left others right next to them intact, because they were owned by men who agreed to pay "just" prices for the work.
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Replying to @profunc
That’s a pretty drastic downplay of the technological aspect. Automated looms allowed factories to employ less skilled laborers to get the same quality of work, rendering their training worthless. This was illegal because of the credentialing system, not for practical reasons.
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So that’s like saying “I have nothing against Uber drivers I just think only people with taxi medallions should be able to drive,” which is, in effect, fighting against Uber/automated frames because of what they do to labor prices
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