• arthurpizza@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    The Luddites got a bad rap. They weren’t anti-technology. They just knew that the technology was being used to push their wages down and make their hours longer.

    Ned Ludd knew that smashing the machines was sometimes the best option!

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, after I learned about his movement, I stopped using the term as a pejorative. They were’ pretty based.

      A lot of the machinery was also dangerous AF.