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Kenya's tea pickers are destroying the machines replacing them

• 3littlefish 3y ago
  History is a circle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
  • evanb 3y ago
    A saboteur is someone who throws their clogs into automated looms https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saboteur https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saboteur
  • hgsgm 3y ago
    It's sad how Luddite became a slur, but it explains a lot about our modern social troubles.
• FreshStart 3y ago
  Uncle advised farming projects in Kenia, Farmers reported battery's for electric fences as stolen. Turned out they sold them and then solved field protection with human labour aka unemployed relatives. Also sometimes all relatives visit a small successful entrepreneur and fleece the shop.