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.
It wasn’t about working conditions. It was about allowing non-gilded people to operate the looms. And thus it *was* about automation, even if that wasn’t the intent.
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More specifically, they were against the disruption enabled by automated frames
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1) i don't want to have a general debate about the merits of guild systems and labour cartels here. what i'm saying is ada lovelace isn't somehow the luddite's opposite pole because she invented new technologies and the luddites tried to stop them.
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I disagree. Lord Byron specifically wrote about technology and its ills in defense of luddites.
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