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> ... they tend to be clogs in the machine ... Fascinating typo ... from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage ... > [
by RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
> ... they tend to be clogs in the machine ...
Fascinating typo ... from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage ...
> [sabotage] derives from the Netherlands in the 15th
> century when workers would throw their sabots [clogs]
> into the wooden gears of the textile looms to break
> the cogs, feeling the automated machines would render
> the human workers obsolete.
So being "clogs in the machine" is rather apposite for people who are feeling ground down and unappreciated.