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> Imagine working 40 hours a week then seeing that the machine both prepared more product and made fewer mistakes than you The Ballad of John Henry is Civil Wa
by hotpotamus 4y ago
> Imagine working 40 hours a week then seeing that the machine both prepared more product and made fewer mistakes than you
The Ballad of John Henry is Civil War era, but even he was a century or two after the Luddites started wrecking automated weaving machines. It's actually been a feature of the Industrial Revolution for awhile, but I think the effects are more pronounced now than ever.