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what happened with auto looms is cloth became cheap which allowed more people to have clothing and expanded the fashion industry by 1000x Sure glad thse Luddit
by gernb 4y ago
what happened with auto looms is cloth became cheap which allowed more people to have clothing and expanded the fashion industry by 1000x
Sure glad thse Luddites didn't get their way
- soft_dev_person 4y agoI can guess the modern slaves producing our cheap clothes would have an opinion on that.
- robertlagrant 4y agoIt's true that a lot of the fashion industry appears to be pretty disgusting. But that doesn't mean that it would be better if fewer of the steps were automated.
- MSFT_Edging 4y agoLocal communities would be stronger and more resilient with more local crafts-people providing meaningful labor within said communities. Currently, everything is extraction and the US is rotting from the inside out because of it.
- robertlagrant 4y agoPeople can do that right now; they just choose not to. I don't think you can do simple moralising at the state of things and point the blame at a single cause.
- colinmhayes 4y agoOr people would consume less and therefore be poorer.
- vidarh 4y agoSo you read the comment which specifically made the argument that they didn't want to prevent the new looms from being used and concluded that they wanted to prevent the new looms from being used?
- bamboozled 4y agoIt's probably also opened up a whole niche market for artisan "handwoven" fabrics. Sadly that's probably a modern thing and not something that people wanted / cared about immediately once everyone lost their jobs.