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They can always smash looms.
by dangerboysteve 3y ago
They can always smash looms.
- olddustytrail 3y agoThe people who were smashing looms had their own looms. They were being undercut by automation and forced out of running their own one family business to working for a factory. The factory could also cut costs by employing child labour to crawl among the machines fixing breakages at risk of their limbs. That's capitalism for you. Are you really surprised people opposed this?
- BurningFrog 3y ago200 years later, we are unfathomably better off materially, because automation was slowed to destroy jobs.
- DrThunder 3y agoRight... because working conditions in communist countries are so great, totally zero child slave labor going on in China. It's awesome when you're forced to work and still starve right?
- olddustytrail 3y agoThis has nothing to do with communism, which hadn't even been invented at this point. It's about cottage industry vs capitalism.
- DrThunder 3y agoIt has nothing to do with capitalism either but you decided to insert it because your pink haired sociology professor and Berkley told you so.
- olddustytrail 3y agoOf course it does, it was literally when capitalism replaced cottage industry. I'm not an American, so I didn't go to Berkley and in fact don't have a degree because I went out and got a job. Perhaps if you'd done the same you wouldn't have such a limited view of the world?
- DrThunder 3y agoYou got a job? Provided to you by capitalism? So you're working for the man? Dude, you're not being a very good socialist.