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Looms weren't trained unwillingly by the people they replaced. You're thinking about outsourcing.
by pessimizer 3y ago
Looms weren't trained unwillingly by the people they replaced. You're thinking about outsourcing.
- tzekid 3y agoBut they were. Weavers improved on their processes for a long time before the engineers swooped in and put that accumulated knowledge into an automated form.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoAnd they were worried it would be used to disenfranchise them and enrich the factory owners at the expense of themselves/laborers, and surprise! they weren't wrong.